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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386595
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400598
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2003
and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573400
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Self-employment grants vs. subsidized employment : is there a difference in the re-unemployment risk?
Carling, Kenneth; Gustafson, Lena - 1999
Self-employment grants and employment subsidies are active labor market programs that aim at helping unemployed workers to escape unemployment by becoming self-employed or being hired at an initially reduced cost for the employer. In Sweden in the 1990's the participation rate in the...
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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? : a theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent … subsidies have no effect on human capital they improve individuals’ employment prospects less than training programs …. Contrariwise, on the assumption that the formation of human capital on subsidized jobs equals that by formal training subsidization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950725
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent … subsidies have no effect on human capital they improve individuals' employment prospects less than training programs …. Contrariwise, on the assumption that the formation of human capital on subsidized jobs equals that by formal training subsidization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144940
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Stuck in a trap? : long-term unemployment under two-tier unemployment compensation schemes
Nagl, Wolfgang; Weber, Michael - 2016
We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term...
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From micro data to causality : forty years of empirical labor economics
Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259620
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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
outcome of interest is realized after the individual left the initial state. An example concerns the effect of training on … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in … training in the US and long-run effects of a training program for unemployed workers in Sweden. Estimates are positive and …
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