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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

In many cases assignment to a treatment may affect concomitant variables. I show how a concomitant variable can be used to corroborate evidence from an observational study. In the observational study two types of training programs are compared. One program is part of regular Swedish labor market...

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Evaluation of Swedish youth labour market programmes

Larsson, Laura - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

This paper evaluates and compares the direct effects of two Swedish active labour market programmes for youth, namely youth practice and labour market training. Effectiveness of the programmes is measured by subsequent annual earnings, re-employment probability, and probability of regular...

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Employment subsidies - A fast lane from unemployment to work?

Forslund, Anders; Johansson, Per; Lindqvist, Linus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 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. <p> We also show how non-parametric methods can be used to estimate the...</p>

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Early indication of program performance: The case of a Swedish temporary employment program

Larsson, Laura; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2004

This paper proposes an application of standard evaluation techniques to obtain an early indication of the efficiency of …

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Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s

Sianesi, Barbara - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

The paper evaluates the differential performance of the six main types of Swedish programmes that were available to adult unemployed workers entitled to unemployment benefits in the 1990s: labour market training, workplace introduction, work experience placement, relief work, trainee replacement...

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Testing the New Keynesian Phillips curve

Bårdsen, Gunnar; Jansen, Eilev S.; Nymoen, Ragnar - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2003

The dynamic properties of the The New Keynesian Phillips curve (NPC) is analysed within the framework of a small system of linear di.erence equations.We evaluate the empirical results of existing studies which uses ‘Euroland’ and US data. The debate has been centered around the...

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The Labour Input response to Permanent Changes in Output: Errors in Variables Econometrics Based on Panel Data.

Biorn, E.; Klette, T.J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

Using panel data for the Norwegian manufacturing, we revisit " the increasing returns to scale puzzle" for labour input. We consider the response of the input of white collar workers, blue collar workers, and blue collar worker hours to permanent changes in output. Permanent and temporary...

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Public Training and Outflows from Unemployment

Puhani, Patrick A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1999

We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the outflows from employment and the effects of all ALMP...

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Statistics E-learning Platforms Evaluation: Case Study

Ahmad, Taleb; Härdle, Wolfgang - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008

students views? In this paper, we consider evaluate e-learning systems in statistics. We make an evaluation study, we analyze a … students sample of the methods: Factor analysis, Logit model. The common aim of this evaluation is to provide data to justify … questionnaire covers information about e-learning evaluation criterias. Some of these criterias are: Navigability, applicability …

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DEFERENCE INNOVATION STOCK AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY.

POOLE, E.; BERNARD, J.T. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1990

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