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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; … - 2019
application reveals a positive effect of the training programme on days in employment for long-term unemployed. While the choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060603
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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
application reveals a positive effect of the training programme on days in employment for long-term unemployed. While the choice …Propensity Score Matching-Schätzer sind ein zentrales Tool, um Wirkungen aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit …
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Active Labor Policy in Germany and Switzerland - a Confrontation (Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland Und Der Schweiz - Eine GegenüBerstellung)
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2006
The active labour market policies in Switzerland and Germany are compared. German and Swiss labour market policies have similar aims, instruments and experienced similar institutional reforms. In Switzerland, an informative administrative database for an evaluation of these policies was made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057858
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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
Using a rich and unique combined administrative-survey dataset, this paper explores how sensitive propensity score (PS) matching estimates of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) based on the selection-on-observables assumption are to typically unobserved covariates. Using a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366170
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Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment
Richardson, Katarina; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2008
The vocational employment training program is the most expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273981
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Vocational training for female job returners: Effects on employment, earnings and job quality
Doerr, Annabelle - 2022
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269297
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Partial identification of wage effects of training programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - 2010
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the in-dividual wages is important, because … quantile effects. For these bounds, consistent, nonparametric estimators are proposed. In a reevaluation of a German training …
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is … reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703375
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is … reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696742
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is … reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114283