We examine how education expansions affect the job opportunities for workers with and without the new education. To identify causal effects, we exploit a quasi-random establishment of Universities of Applied Sciences (UASs), bachelor-granting three-year colleges that teach and conduct applied...

Der vorliegende AMS report 45 beinhaltet Beiträge anläßlich der von der Abteilung Berufsinformations- und Qualifikationsforschung des AMS Österreich (nunmehr Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich) veranstalteten Fachtagung „Qualifikationsbedarf der...

Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...