The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation
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- Marco Caliendo & Reinhard Hujer & Stephan L. Thomsen, 2008. "The employment effects of job-creation schemes in Germany: A microeconometric evaluation," Advances in Econometrics, in: Modelling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, pages 381-428, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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Keywords
evaluation; matching; sensitivity analysis; job creation schemes; long-term unemployed;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2005-03-13 (European Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2005-03-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2005-03-13 (Public Economics)
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