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Effectiveness of One-Euro-Jobs : do programme characteristics matter?

Hohmeyer, Katrin - 2009

Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Arbeitslosengeld II-Bezieher entwickelt. In ihrer Gestaltung besteht Spielraum für lokale Akteure, um auf … labour market policy ; propensity score matching ; pairwise matching ; workfare ; means-tested benefit recipients …

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008

employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe … labour market programmes ; propensity score matching ; common support problem …

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Labour market integration programmes for refugees in Austria : do they really work and for whom?

Mara, Isilda - 2023

Syria in Austria, and it uses matching models to evaluate the effects on employment of participation in those two programmes …. More specifically, it applies multivariate matching methods that ensure better balancing properties between the control and …

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The post-reform effectiveness of the new German start-up subsidy for the unemployed

Bellmann, Lutz; Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2017

Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility criteria were tightened and entitlement was abandoned...

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The effectiveness of public sponsored training revisited : the importance of data and methodological choices

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2012

effects in the early 2000s. We employ a stratified propensity score matching approach to address dynamic selection into …

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014

A large and highly used number of 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 both variables that affect treatment...

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Decomposing a matching estimation : correlated unobserved non-random selection, substitution, and causal effects in a large scale ALMP Program in Germany ; conference paper

Brändle, Tobias; Fervers, Lukas; Webel, Carina - 2014 - Preliminary version

perform matching estimations to analyse the treatment effect on the treated. In the cross-section estimation, we find …-participants. Therefore, we combine matching with difference-in-difference estimation (to control for unobserved heterogeneity), Doing so, we … matching estimation can be decomposed into a causal effect (6%-points), correlated unobserved heterogeneity and negative spill …

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How sensitive are matching estimates of active labor market policy effects to typically unobserved confounders?

Tübbicke, Stefan - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

) matching estimates of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) based on the selection-on-observables assumption are to typically … confounders. However, results also show that matching on the PS using only typically observed covariates reduces imbalance in … matching approach based on rich and high quality administrative data appears to be sufficient to obtain estimates that are …

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Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? : the case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed

Goller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Moczall, Andreas; … - 2020

Propensity Score Matching-Schätzer sind ein zentrales Tool, um Wirkungen aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit …Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation … of average treatment effects on the treated using a radius matching framework. Considering two popular methods, the …

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The Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Revisited : The Importance of Data and Methodological Choices

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2012

effects in the early 2000s. We employ a stratified propensity score matching approach to address dynamic selection into …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165499