Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g
Reihe: ZEW Economic Studies
Empirical Evidence for Poland During Transition
Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g
Reihe: ZEW Economic Studies
ISBN: 978-3-7908-1234-3
Verlag: Physica
Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the re-employment chances of the unemployed. This book investigates which active labour market programmes in Poland are value for money and which are not. To this end, modern statistical methods are applied to both macro- and microeconomic data. It is shown that training programmes increase, whereas job subsidies and public works decrease the re-employment opportunities of the unemployed. In general, all active labour market policy effects are larger in absolute size for men than for women. By surveying previous studies in the field and outlining the major statistical approaches that are employed in the evaluation literature, the book can be of help to any student interested in programme evaluation irrespective of the paticular programme or country concerned.
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Research
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Weitere Infos & Material
1 Introduction.- 2 The Polish Labour Market in Transition.- 2.1 General Macroeconomic Developments.- 2.2 Employment and Unemployment Developments.- 2.3 Unemployment in the Regional Context.- 2.4 Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) in Poland.- 3 Macroeconometric Almp Evaluation by way of Augmented Matching Functions.- 3.1 Economic Theory: The Matching Function Approach.- 3.2 Literature Survey of Studies on the Matching function.- 3.3 Econometric Issues.- 3.4 Data and Variables.- 3.5 Estimation Results for Poland.- 3.6 Conclusions from the Macroeeonometric Analysis.- 4 Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Methodological Issues and Previous Work.- 4.1 The Sample Selection Problem and the Theoretical Case for an Experiment.- 4.2 What Can We Do with Non-Experimental Data?.- 4.3 The Statistical Matching Approach to the Selection Problem in Non-Experimental Studies.- 4.4 Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models.- 4.5 Other Methods to Identify Causal Effects.- 4.6 Literature Survey of Empirical Studies on Transition Economies.- 5 Microeconometric ALMP Evaluation: Empirical Analysis for Poland.- 5.1 Data.- 5.2 Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of the Statistical Matching Approach.- 5.3 Empirical Evaluation of ALMPs by Way of Duration Models.- 5.4 Conclusions from the Microeconometric Analysis.- 6 Conclusions.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Abbreviations.- References.
