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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : conference paper

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013 - This version: February 13, 2013

In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...

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The actual structure of eBay's feedback mechanism and early evidence on the effects of recent changes

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2007

eBay's feedback mechanism is considered crucial to establishing and maintaining trust on the world's largest trading platform. The effects of a user's reputation on the probability of sale and on prices are at the center of a large number of studies. More recent theoretical work considers...

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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft

countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …

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Employment subsidies : a fast lane from unemployment to work?

Forslund, Anders; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindqvist, Linus - 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. We also show how non-parametric methods can be used to estimate the...

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The effect of increased employer contacts within a labour market training program

Johansson, Per-Olov; Martinson, Sara - 2000

Using both register and survey data, two types of labour market training programs are compared. One program is part of the regular Swedish labour market training and the other, Swit, was initiated as an experiment during a two-year period, in an attempt to solve a bottleneck problem with people...

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Earnings effects of adult secondary education in Sweden

Ekström, Erika - 2003

In Sweden adult secondary education (ASE) has been offered since 1968, but we know little about its labour market effects. ASE offers courses at the compulsory and upper secondary level and is aimed to give adults who lack these types of education. This paper provides the first long-run annual...

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The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work

Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment using a unique set of administrative data and a...

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

Sianesi, Barbara - 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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What works and for whom : a review of OECD countries' experiences with active labour market policies

Martin, John P.; Grubb, David - 2001

Although rather discouraging in general, the evaluation literature indicates some measures that have been successful … the impacts are not large. Also, the evaluation literature focuses on the impacts of one-off programs. Regular …

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

Larsson, Laura; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2004

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

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