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Evaluation der Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Arbeitsmarktpolitik soll neben der Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik sowie der Arbeitszeit- und Lohnpolitik einen Beitrag zur Bewältigung der Arbeitslosigkeit leisten. Aber ist sie dabei auch erfolgreich und stehen die eingebrachten Mittel in einem angemessenen Verhältnis zu den erzielten Wirkungen? Die Evaluationsforschung geht der Frage nach den Beschäftigungseffekten und den sozialpolitischen Wirkungen auf individueller und gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene nach. Das Dossier bietet weiterführende Informationen zu Evaluationsmethoden und den Wirkungen von einzelnen Maßnahmen für verschiedene Zielgruppen.

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    Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect (2006)

    Johansson, Per ;

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    Johansson, Per (2006): Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2006,03), Uppsala, 34 S.

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    "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 training while the other program was run by Swedish industry during 1998-2000. A large and positive effect on employment is found from this latter program. In this program it was much easier to get employer contact than in the regular program. From a survey I have information about employer contacts in the two programs. I find the same positive effect on employment from employer contacts in either program and no effects from the new program when conditioning on employer contacts. I interpret this as a causal effect on employment from employer contacts. In addition, this effect is found to be more pronounced for individuals with a weak position in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Essays on unemployment duration and programme evaluation (2006)

    Nivorozhkin, Anton ;

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    Nivorozhkin, Anton (2006): Essays on unemployment duration and programme evaluation. (Göteborg University, Department of Economics. Economic studies 149), Göteborg: Göteborg University, Getr. Sz.

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    "The process of labour market transformation in the 1990s attracted a lot of attention from economists and policy makers. Unprecedented changes, like rapid reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and later the expansion of the European Union, require a deeper understanding of current labour-market trends. This dissertation provides three essays focusing on the impact of the active labour market programmes and the determinants of unemployment duration in the second half of the 1990s in Russia and Sweden. The first two chapters of my dissertation provide a foundation for a policy analysis of issues related to unemployment duration and for an evaluation of the effect of training programmes offered by the state to unemployed individuals in urban Russia. Paper 1 investigates the impact of training programmes on wages of individuals. Using data from the official unemployment register combined with the information from the follow-up survey, I use the method of 'propensity-score matching' to evaluate the effect of training programmes. The result suggests that participants of training programmes receive higher wages after deregistering from the employment office. The paper identifies important gender differences; the effect of training was smaller for females. Paper 2 examines the determinants of unemployment duration of individuals registered as unemployed. The results of a piece-wise constant proportional hazard model imply that the hazard of finding a job is non-monotonic and tends to decrease with time spent in unemployment. An important finding is that only 29% of the unemployed obtained a job simultaneously with deregistering from the Public Employment Office (PEO). Others continued to search for job on their own. I find that the intensity of the job search increases after individuals leave the public employment office. The final chapter of the thesis, Paper 3, addresses the question of whether the possibility of exit from unemployment to the previous employer affects the duration of unemployment spells in Sweden. The empirical analysis is performed using an employee-employer dataset that includes a number of enterprise characteristics and provides information on individual tenure. The econometric approach employs estimation of a competing risk duration model to distinguish between exits to the previous employer and exits to a new job. The findings suggest that greater tenure raises the risks of transitions to the previous employer, while high education levels increase the risk of obtaining a new job. Moreover, the impact of benefit exhaustion is observed only for transitions to new employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Swedish labor market training and the duration of unemployment (2006)

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

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    Richardson, Katarina & Gerard J. van den Berg (2006): Swedish labor market training and the duration of unemployment. (IZA discussion paper 2314), Bonn, 47 S.

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    "The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment and outcome, dealing with selectivity on unobservables. We demonstrate the appropriateness of this approach in our context by studying the assignment. We also develop a model allowing for duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity (leading to spurious duration dependence) in the treatment effect, and we prove non-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a large significantly positive effect on exit to work shortly after exiting the program. The effect at the individual level diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration is often close to zero." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Virtues of SIN: effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program (2006)

    Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per ;

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    Åslund, Olof & Per Johansson (2006): Virtues of SIN. Effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2006,07), Uppsala, 47 S.

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    "We evaluate an immigrant workplace introduction program aimed at helping individuals considered employable but at the same time expected to experience substantial difficulties in finding work. Using supported employment methods, the SIN program may influence outcomes through several channels. We use in-dividual data and a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work experience schemes, and improved future employment probabilities for those who entered these schemes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Do benefit hikes damage job finding?: evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms (2005)

    Bennmarker, Helge; Holmlund, Bertil; Carling, Kenneth;

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    Bennmarker, Helge, Kenneth Carling & Bertil Holmlund (2005): Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2005,22), Uppsala, 45 S.

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    "In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also substantial benefit hikes for spells exceeding 20 weeks. This paper examines how these reforms affected transitions from unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the 'treatments' differed considerably among unemployed individuals. We find that the reforms had strikingly different effects on job finding among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment is not statistically different from zero. However, the reforms reduced job finding among males who remained unemployed for more than 20 weeks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Direct displacement effects of labour market programms (2005)

    Dahlberg, Matz ; Forslund, Anders ;

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    Dahlberg, Matz & Anders Forslund (2005): Direct displacement effects of labour market programms. In: The Scandinavian journal of economics, Jg. 107, H. 3, S. 475-494. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00419.x

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    "Using a panel of 250 Swedish municipalities over the period 1987-1996, we examine the direct displacement effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data. Based on our GMM estimations, we find that there are direct displacement effects from subsidised employment (in the order of approximately 65%), but that there seem to be no (significant) displacement effects from training. This result seems to be robust to several alternative specifications." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Integrative' or 'defensive' youth activation in nine European welfare states (2005)

    Harsløf, Ivan ;

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    Harsløf, Ivan (2005): Integrative' or 'defensive' youth activation in nine European welfare states. In: Journal of youth studies, Jg. 8, H. 4, S. 461-481. DOI:10.1080/13676260500431792

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    "Young unemployed persons are a prioritised group in active labour market programmes. Such programmes can be regarded as 'integrative', facilitating integration into the labour market for young people in accordance with their own preferences. However, such programmes can also be regarded as 'defensive', discouraging young unemployed persons from claiming transfer incomes and urging them to lower their sights when looking for jobs. The article examines the conceptions of the young participants themselves, analysing whether activation programmes are experienced in ways endorsing the integrative or the defensive perspective across different European welfare states. Survey data from these countries indicate that activation programmes for youth are at the integrative end of the spectrum. This is especially the case in the universal welfare regime countries, which are also the group of countries in which youth activation schemes are most widespread. Participant's scheme evaluations are least favourable in Scotland, in line with expectations of a liberal welfare regime approach. Most conservative welfare regime countries fall in between." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labor market institutions and public regulation (2004)

    Agell, Jonas; Keen, Michael; Weichenrieder, Alfons J.;

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    Agell, Jonas, Michael Keen & Alfons J. Weichenrieder (Hrsg.) (2004): Labor market institutions and public regulation. (CESifo seminar series), Cambridge u.a.: MIT Press, 228 S.

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    "The six studies collected in this CESifo volume analyze the effects of public regulation on the labor market. The first three chapters of Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation present empirical findings, comparing the effects of job training and subsidized employment on the Swedish labor market, analyzing the effect of extended unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for older Austrian workers, and examining poor labor market performance in Spain even after policy reforms. The following chapters take a more theoretical approach, applying the analytical tools of theory to policy issues. These three studies examine the general equilibrium repercussions of public support for both basic and higher education, develop an efficiency wage model to analyze mandated severance pay, and compare different kinds of redistribution to low-skill workers financed by an increased tax on capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Activation versus others employment policies: lessons for Germany (2004)

    Calmfors, Lars;

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    Calmfors, Lars (2004): Activation versus others employment policies. Lessons for Germany. In: CESifo forum, Jg. 5, H. 2, S. 35-42.

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    In dem Beitrag wird diskutiert, welchen Beitrag die Strategie der aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Senkung der Arbeitslosigkeit Deutschlands leisten kann. Dies geschieht vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrungen anderer Länder, vor allem Schwedens. (IAB)

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    The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990s (2004)

    Carling, Kenneth; Richardson, Katarina;

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    Carling, Kenneth & Katarina Richardson (2004): The relative efficiency of labor market programs. Swedish experience from the 1990s. In: Labour economics, Jg. 11, H. 3, S. 335-354. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2003.09.002

    Abstract

    "We estimate the relative efficiency of eight Swedish labor market programs in reducing the unemployment duration for participants, using a rich, administrative data set of all adult unemployed workers. We find that programs in which the participants obtain subsidized work experience and training provided by firms have better outcomes than classroom vocational training. The relative efficiency is similar across demographic and skill groups, and independent of the timing of the placement. A careful examination of the assignment process to programs reveals no self-selection, but substantial administrative selection. It appears to be unrelated to the outcome, however, and should not bias the results." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Using the unemployed as temporary employment counsellors: evaluation of an initiative to combat long-term unemployment (2004)

    Delander, Lennart; Mansson, Jonas; Nyberg, Erik;

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    Delander, Lennart, Jonas Mansson & Erik Nyberg (2004): Using the unemployed as temporary employment counsellors. Evaluation of an initiative to combat long-term unemployment. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Discussion papers SP 1 2004-111), Berlin, 47 S.

    Abstract

    "Die vorliegende Studie ist eine empirische Untersuchung der Auswirkungen eines Pilotprojektes, bei dem Arbeitslose vorübergehend als Arbeitsberater eingesetzt wurden. Wirtschaftstheorien sehen einen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen der Intensität der Suche nach einem Arbeitsplatz und dem Austritt aus der Arbeitslosigkeit. Das grundlegende Konzept des Projektes lag im Einsatz von Arbeitslosen, die nach einer kundenorientierten Schulung anderen Arbeitslosen bei ihrer Arbeitssuche assistierten. Zeitlich angesiedelt wurde das Projekt in einer Phase sehr hoher Arbeitsbelastung in den öffentlichen Arbeitsagenturen, die zu einer drastischen Reduzierung der Kapazitäten für die Einzelberatung von Arbeitslosen führte. Grundlage bildete ein Abkommen zwischen Gewerkschaftsverbänden und der schwedischen Arbeitsverwaltung. Basierend auf Geschäftsdaten der Arbeitsverwaltung untersucht dieses Papier die Wirkung des Projektes auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit aus der Arbeitslosenstatistik der Beschäftigungsagenturen auszuscheiden (einzelne Gründe für das Ausscheiden werden separat untersucht) oder in ein Beschäftigungsprogramm aufgenommen zu werden. Für arbeitssuchende Programmteilnehmer untersucht die Studie auch die Wahrscheinlichkeit des Eintritts in Beschäftigung im Anschluss an die Programmteilnahme. Ebenso wird der zeitliche Zusammenhang zwischen dem Projektbeginn bis zum Ausscheiden eines Arbeitssuchenden aus der Arbeitslosenstatistik oder dessen Eintritt in ein Arbeitsmarktprogramm untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich das Projekt positiv auf die Bemühungen bei der Suche nach einer Beschäftigung auswirkt und dadurch Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit reduziert wird." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Swedish activity guarantee (2004)

    Forslund, Anders ; Froberg, Daniela; Lindqvist, Linus;

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    Forslund, Anders, Daniela Froberg & Linus Lindqvist (2004): The Swedish activity guarantee. (OECD social, employment and migration working papers 16), Paris, 23 S. DOI:10.1787/631026763167

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    "Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A 'carousel' effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment and participation in active programmes - increasingly seen came to be seen as a factor making the active programmes less effective in promoting the transition to ordinary work. Following policy reforms in 2000 and 2001, participation in a programme no longer generates new UI entitlements. However, the public employment service (PES) can refer the unemployed to a new programme, the Activity Guarantee. This provides continuing income support, and engages participants in job-search and other activities in principle full-time until they find ordinary work.
    This paper summarises findings from two questionnaire surveys of the implementation of the Activity Guarantee. The first survey was addressed to PES case workers, who have direct personal contact with participants and much of the responsibility for designing programme content. The second survey was addressed to participants, and reports on their personal characteristics and job search activity, and their experience of the programme and views about its effectiveness.
    Many case workers thought that information concerning the content of the Activity Guarantee was not sufficiently clear, and that they had not received sufficient training for this work. Existing guidelines were not always implemented: contrary to quality criteria, case workers on the programme often had other work assignments, and almost one quarter of PES offices did not offer programme participants a full-time activity. A common method of implementing the programme was to first engage participants in job-search activities for groups, and later offer a place on a regular labour market programme.
    Participants in the Activity Guarantee have the usual characteristics of the long-term unemployed: a relatively high mean age, a relatively high share with a disability, and a low level of training. On the whole, survey respondents were content with the programme. However, almost half were critical of the activities offered and more than half said they would not participate if it did not provide them with income. Two-thirds reported that they were activated full-time. However, only slightly more than half met their supervisor as often as once a month. Fewer had applied for a job within the last four weeks, or knew that they had an individual action plan. Since 2001, benefit recipients must widen their geographic and occupational areas of job search after 100 days of unemployment, and supervisors had recommended nearly three-fifths of respondents to widen their occupational search area, and one-fifth to widen their geographic search area. However, there were no clear signs that job-search activity had increased among the participants." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Employment subsidies: a fast lane from unemployment to work? (2004)

    Forslund, Anders ; Lindqvist, Linus; Johansson, Per ;

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    Forslund, Anders, Per Johansson & Linus Lindqvist (2004): Employment subsidies. A fast lane from unemployment to work? (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2004,18), Uppsala, 55 S.

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    "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 time profile of treatment effects as well as how to estimate the effect of entering the programme at different points in time in the unemployment spell. Our main results are derived using matching methods. However, as a sensitivity test, we apply instrumental variables difference-indifference methods. These estimates indicate that our matching results are robust." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Early indication of program performance: The case of a Swedish temporary employment program (2004)

    Larsson, Laura ; Nordström Skans, Oskar;

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    Larsson, Laura & Oskar Nordström Skans (2004): Early indication of program performance: The case of a Swedish temporary employment program. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2004,07), Uppsala, 21 S.

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    "This paper proposes an application of standard evaluation techniques to obtain an early indication of the efficiency of a social program. An explicit distinction is made between participation and treatment since non-participants in many cases can find treatment outside of the program. By estimating the amount of treatment participants would have received if there had been no program it is possible to derive the net treatment provided by the program as soon as the first participants have entered the program. Using propensity score matching to study substitutes in the recently implemented Swedish 'Career Break' pilot program we obtain three main results: First, the selection into the program favours participants that would have received treatment even without the program. Second, the net treatment provided by the program is on average only about half of the expected program length. Third, a simulation shows how the net treatment could be increased by a simple change in the eligibility criteria." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labor market programs in the 1990s (2004)

    Sianesi, Barbara ;

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    Sianesi, Barbara (2004): An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labor market programs in the 1990s. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 86, H. 1, S. 133-155. DOI:10.1162/003465304323023723

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    "We investigate the presence of short- and long-term effects from joining a Swedish labor market program vis-a-vis more intense job search in open unemployment. Overall, the impact of the program system is found to have been mixed. Joining a program has increased employment rates among participants, a result robust to a misclassification problem in the data. On the other hand it has also allowed participants to remain significantly longer on unemployment benefits and more generally in the unemployment system, this being particularly the case for those entitled individuals entering a program around the time of their unemployment benefits' exhaustion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Verringert berufsbezogene Rehabilitation die Wiedereingliederungswahrscheinlichkeit?: zur mikroökonometrischen Evaluation am Beispiel der "Schweden-Studie" (2003)

    Beiderwieden, Kay;

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    Beiderwieden, Kay (2003): Verringert berufsbezogene Rehabilitation die Wiedereingliederungswahrscheinlichkeit? Zur mikroökonometrischen Evaluation am Beispiel der "Schweden-Studie". In: Die Rehabilitation, Jg. 42, H. 3, S. 180-191.

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    Der Autor bewertet die Methoden und Ergebnisse der Studie "Mikrokönomische Evaluierung berufsbezogener Rehabilitation in Schweden", die M. Frölich, A. Heshmati und M. Lechner im Jahre 2000 in der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, S. 433-461, veröffentlicht haben. Diese Studie beruht auf einem nichtexperimentellen Ansatz der Evaluation und kommt zu einem für die Bildungs-Rehabilitation vernichtenden Ergebnis. (IAB)

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    Youth unemployment and social exclusion: a comparative study (2003)

    Hammer, Torild;

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    Hammer, Torild (Hrsg.) (2003): Youth unemployment and social exclusion. A comparative study. Bristol: The Policy Press, 233 S.

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    "Throughout the European Union rates of unemployment among young people tend to be higher than among the general population and there is a serious risk of marginalisation and exclusion. This book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large and original data set. It addresses some of the key questions around the issue including: -How do young people cope with unemployment? -Does unemployment lead to social exclusion of young people, implying a withdrawal from society, financial deprivation and social isolation? Drawing on a research sample of over 17.000 young unemployed people in 10 European countries, the book examines how different welfare strategies and labour market policies in different countries influence the risk of social exclusion among unemployed youth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labor Market Programs (2003)

    Larsson, Laura ;

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    Larsson, Laura (2003): Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labor Market Programs. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 891-927.

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    "A nonparametric matching approach is applied to estimate the average effects of two active labor market programs for youth in Sweden: youth practice and labor market training. The results of the evaluation indicate either zero or negative effects of both programs on earnings, employment probability, and the probability of entering education in the short run, whereas the long-run effects are mainly zero or slightliy positive. The results also suggests that youth practice was more effective - or "less harmful" - than labor market training. However, there is considerable heterogeneity in the estimated treatment effects among individuals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's (2002)

    Andren, Thomas; Gustafsson, Björn ;

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    Andren, Thomas & Björn Gustafsson (2002): Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's. (IZA discussion paper 603), Bonn, 46 S.

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    "Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper the authors estimate a switching regression model with training effect modeled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved component. They investigate labor market training for three cohorts during the 80s and the beginning of the 90s on its effect on earnings. They separate the analysis between Swedish-born and foreign-born individuals to identify differences in their responses to training. The results indicate that there is positive sorting into training. The authors find that the proportion of trainees having positive rewards from training was not very different from the proportion having negative rewards. This means that the results do not support the view that from efficiency considerations, too few persons were enrolled in labor market training during this period. Differences in results across cohorts can be interpreted as being caused by rapid changes in the labor market. Further, consistent with results from several previous studies, we find that being young often means no positive pay-off from training, and the same is found for persons with only primary education. In conflict with what earlier studies have shown, we found that males have a better pay-off from training than females. Rewards from training were higher for foreign-born than for natives and rewards among the former vary by place of birth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's (2002)

    Andrén, Thomas ; Gustafsson, Björn ;

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    Andrén, Thomas & Björn Gustafsson (2002): Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2002,15), Uppsala, 50 S.

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    "Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect modeled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved component. We investigate labor market training for three cohorts during the 80s and the beginning of the 90s on its effect on earnings. We separate the analysis between Swedish-born and foreign-born individuals to identify differences in their responses to training. The results indicate that there is positive sorting into training. We find that the proportion of trainees having positive rewards from training was not very different from the proportion having negative rewards. This means that the results do not support the view that from efficiency considerations, too few persons were enrolled in labor market training during this period. Differences in results across cohorts can be interpreted as being caused by rapid changes in the labor market. Further, consistent with results from several previous studies we find that being young often means no positive pay-off from training, and the same is found for persons with only primary education. In conflict with what earlier studies have shown, we found that males have a better pay-off from training than females. Rewards from training were higher for foreign-born than for natives and rewards among the former vary by place of birth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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