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The Abolition of the GP Fundholding Scheme: a Lesson inEvidence-based Policy Making

Kay, Adrian - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2001

before its abolition.This was because there was no systematic evaluation of GP fundholding and the decision toabolish it was …

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Student perceptions of enterprise education in Poland

Jones, Paul; Jones, Amanda; Packham, Gary A.; Edwards, … - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2006

This study appraises the delivery of a dedicated enterprise education module to a group of Polish students and evaluates its impact and effectiveness in encouraging previously nascent entrepreneurial activity. Current enterprise education debate questions the effective construction of...

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Teachers' Evaluations and the Definition of the Situation inthe Classroom

Becker, Dominik A.; Birkelbach, Klaus - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011

The theoretical contribution of this paper is to regard teachers’ evaluations with a prognostic claim aboutstudents’ future academic ability as a result of a special social situation in the classroom. We assume thatafter teachers have framed the social situation, particular scripts of action...

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New metrics for evaluating preference maps

Faure, Corinne; Natter, Martin - Universität <Frankfurt, Main> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2010

Preference maps provide a visual representation of market structure, usually depicting brand or product alternatives, product attributes, and customers in a single graphic. Using measures of consideration and attribute sets to establish criterion validity, we develop a set of metrics that can be...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a …. Therefore, information that might be relevantfor economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims to overcome … sampling andcontents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future development.... …

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They`re Natural and Everywhere : How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization

Maier, Florentine; Brandl, Julia - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integratefindings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insightsfrom institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

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Evaluierung der arbeitsmarktpolitischenSonderprogramme CASTund Mainzer Modell

Kaltenborn, Bruno; Krug, Gerhard; Hermann, Rudolf; … - Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen> - 2005

Nach einer intensiven öffentlichen Debatte um dieFörderung des Niedriglohnsektors im Jahr 1999 hatdie Bundesregierung eine Anregung des damaligennationalen Bündnisses für Arbeit, Ausbildung undWettbewerbsfähigkeit aufgegriffen und das Sonderprogramm"CAST" (Chancen und Anreize zurAufnahme...

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Econometric Causality

Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems...

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Individual Incentives in Program Participation : Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment

Weber, Andrea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...

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