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Assessment of labour market returns in the case of gender unique human capital
Tverdostup, Maryna; Paas, Tiiu - 2016
earning profiles of unique human capital holders is analysed implementing several matching procedures and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490728
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Effects of the unemployment insurance work test on long-term employment outcomes
Lachowska, Marta; Meral, Merve; Woodbury, Stephen A. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 246-265
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
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Evolution of living standards in Romanian rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lupu, Geanina-Valentina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 321-327). 2020
Throughout its history, Romania has gone through many crises in many sectors of the society. The premise, for the present situation, is that the reaction to a total crisis arising from a health problem, is being investigated. The consequences for the economy are still for analysis, but from now...
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Public subsidies, TFP and Efficiency : a tale of complex relationships
Bernini, Cristina; Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - 2015
The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by Law 488/92 (henceforth L488), which has been an important policy instrument for reducing territorial disparities in Italy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481750
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Do public subsidies add to private sector R&D activity? : microeconometric evidence for regional innovation policy in East Germany
Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - 2010 - First version: January 2010; this version: March 2010, draft
-section of East German firms applying different matching estimations, which are primary based on an estimate of a propensity … values (the so called propensity score) in a second step matching approach. Here we compare the outcome difference of … robustness checks based on different estimation routines (Kernel, Mahalanobis distance) and additional matching criteria beyond …
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Beyond the SUTVA : how industrial policy evaluations change when we allow for interactions among firms
Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - 2013
agglomeration effect with the negative cross-sectional substitution and the crowding-out effect. Econometrically we adopt a Matching … difference-in-differences (MDiD) using the recent coarsened exact matching (CEM). Our application concerns the Italian Law 488 (L …
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Are the subsidies to private capital useful? : a multiple regression discontinuity design approach
Pellegrini, Guido; Cerqua, Augusto - 2011
There is still little consensus on the effectiveness of business support policies. The empirical evaluation is complicated by the difficulty in achieving reliable identification. We analyse the impact of Law 488/92, the main Italian regional policy. We propose a new approach, named multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535246
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Local development that money can't buy : Italy's Contratti di Programma
Andini, Monica; De Blasio, Guido - 2012
Local Development that Money Can't Buy: Italy's Contratti di Programma The paper evaluates the effectiveness of a major Italy's place-based policy (Contratti di Programma), through which the Government endorses and finances an industrialization plan proposed by private firms. By using as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515051
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Measuring systemic financial stress and its impact on the macroeconomy
Chavleishvili, Sulkhan; Kremer, Manfred - 2021 - Version: February 9, 2021
This paper proposes a general statistical framework for systemic financial stress indexes. Several existing index designs can be represented as special cases. We introduce a daily variant of the ECB's CISS for the euro area and the US. The CISS aggregates a representative set of stress...
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