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The impact of active labour market policy on post-unemployment outcomes: evidence from a social experiment in Denmark

While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes, ... Show more
While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes, empirical evaluations investigating transition rates have mostly focused on the impact of ALMPs on exit rates from the current unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic intensification of ALMPs on reemployment stability. We investigate the nature of this impact. We estimate a duration model with lagged duration dependence to separately identify 'indirect' (via shorter unemployment duration) and 'direct' (through a more efficient matching process) effects of ALMPs on subsequent employment duration. We find that overall intensive activation significantly reduces unemployment recurrence for men, but not for women. When we control for dynamic selection into employment and lagged duration dependence, the positive impact of the treatment becomes smaller but remains significant. Eighty per cent of the global impact of intensification acts through the direct channel for men.
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Authors: Blasco, Sylvie; Rosholm, Michael

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Denmark; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Labour market; Policy; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries: evidence from a randomized trial

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in ... Show more
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered and not offered training. The program raises earnings and employment, especially for women. Women offered training earn 18 per cent more and have a 0.05 [per cent] higher probability of employment than those not offered training, mainly in formal sector jobs. Cost-benefit analysis of these results suggests that the program generates much larger net gains than those found in developed countries.
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Authors: Attanasio, Orazio; Kugler, Adriana; Meghir, Costas

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2009

Geographic subjects: Colombia; South America

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Youth; Vocational education and training; Evaluation ... [+] Show more
The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification

We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. ... Show more
We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study different types of programmes, and to observe interesting labour market outcomes over eight years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are on average not helpful for their male participants. At least part of the explanation for this negative result is that caseworkers severely misjudged the structure of the future demand for skills.
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Authors: Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2005

Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Gender; Outcomes; Statistics ... [+] Show more
Unions, work-related training, and wages: evidence for British men

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union c ... Show more
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are more likely to receive training and also receive more days of training. In addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and covered-trained workers face a higher wage growth. While some of these findings have been found in previous studies, others are new. The wage results, in particular, suggest a rethinking is warranted of the conventional view that union wage formation in Britain reduces the incentives to acquire work-related training.
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Authors: Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2003

Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Participation; Industry; Income ... [+] Show more
Count your hours: returns to education in Poland

We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the me ... Show more
We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 and taking advantage of the Polish microsimulation model (SIMPL) we demonstrate how different the results can be depending on whether we use net or gross, and monthly or hourly wages, and show how important selection correction is for the conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a comprehensive analysis of the effects of using different methods and the issue of selection-correction in the estimation of the wage equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7 per cent to 9.7 per cent and for women from 8.0 per cent to 13.4 per cent when we compare results using net monthly wages without correcting for labor market selection to those from a selection corrected specification using gross hourly wages. We also demonstrate that simple linear estimation performs relatively well for men in comparison to our preferred selection corrected estimation, while using family demographics as exclusion restrictions seems to be the 'second best' in the case of the wage equation estimation for women.
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Authors: Myck, Michal; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2009

Geographic subjects: Poland; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Outcomes; Income; Higher education ... [+] Show more
Do they understand the benefits from education?: evidence on Dutch high school students' earnings expectations

Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high sch ... Show more
Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high school students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and high attrition, but we detect little systematic effects and inconsistent reporting of probability distribution is not more frequent than in controlled settings. We find little support for patterns that one would expect from individuals having private information. Girls expect substantially lower earnings in all schooling scenarios, but implicit rate of returns do not differ from those anticipated by boys. We find no evidence of expected risk compensation.
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Authors: Mazza, Jacopo; Hartog, Joop

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Netherlands; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Outcomes; Higher education; Participation ... [+] Show more
Firm-specific training: consequences for job mobility

This paper analyses the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey ... Show more
This paper analyses the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job separations are significantly affected by both employer-provided and general training. Moreover, while the separation probability of searching workers is strongly affected by previous firm-provided training, no such effect shows up for non-searchers. This is consistent with the hypothesis that workers bear most of the cost of specific training.
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Authors: Zweimuller, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2000

Geographic subjects: North America; Europe; United States ... [+] Show more

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Finance; Labour market ... [+] Show more
Income effects from labour market training programs in Sweden during the 80s and 90s

Swedish labour market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully ... Show more
Swedish labour 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 modelled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved component. We investigate labour 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 labour market training during this period. Differences in results across cohorts can be interpreted as being caused by rapid changes in the labour 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.
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Authors: Andren, Thomas; Gustafsson, Bjorn

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2002

Geographic subjects: Europe; Sweden

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Gender; Labour market; Income ... [+] Show more
Crossing the tracks?: more on trends in the training of male and female workers in Great Britain

A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ‘adva ... Show more
A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ‘advantage’ previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey data, updating previous U.K. studies and providing further insights into the above phenomenon. The results suggest that the greater part of the ‘gap’ typically relates to differences in characteristics, among which the most important relate to occupation, industry and sector (public/private).
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Authors: Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J.

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2004

Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Gender; Outcomes; Statistics ... [+] Show more
Vocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupa ... Show more
This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and women and men pursue very different occupational careers. We reconsider whether through occupational segregation women are locked in low wage careers (Kunze, 2005) or whether they can move up to higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period 1975 and 2001 and whether effects vary across the distribution. The main results are: first, while there exists a persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time; second, in the lower part of the wage distribution, the gap is highest and it increases with experience; third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the wage gains due to occupational mobility are higher for men than for women, especially in the lower part of the wage distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock-in effects are still stronger for women compared to men.
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Authors: Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Date: 2005

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: IZA discussion paper

Subjects: Vocational education and training; Youth; Apprenticeship ... [+] Show more