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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323169
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299995
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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774349
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Voelter, Robert - 2021
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317595
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The Effect of Sanctions and Active Labour Market Programmes on the Exit Rate from Unemployment
Ahmad, Nisar; Svarer, Michael - 2009
This paper simultaneously investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions and active labour market programmes on the exit rate from un mployment using Danish data. In the data about one third of the individuals who are sanctioned also participate in some active labour market programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200154
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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757302
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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft
countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344639
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Employment subsidies : a fast lane from unemployment to work?
Forslund, Anders; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindqvist, Linus - 2004
The treatment effect of a Swedish employment subsidy is estimated using exact covariate-matching and instrumental variables methods. Our estimates suggest that the programme had a positive treatment effect for the participants. We also show how non-parametric methods can be used to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571631
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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of Timing-of-Events models
Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2020
This paper builds on the Empirical Monte Carlo simulation approach developed by Huber et al. (2013) to study the estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on participation in a training program to simulate placebo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419545
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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of timing-of-events models
Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2021
This paper builds on the Empirical Monte Carlo simulation approach developed by Huber et al. (2013) to study the estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on participation in a training program to simulate placebo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390913