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22. Mai 2013

Seminar

The Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed and the Role of "Unobserved" Characteristics for Matching Estimators
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Termin

22. Mai 2013
6.30 - 8.00 pm

Ort

WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin

Sprecher*innen

Martin Weißenberger (University of Potsdam)
Abstract: Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have become an important part of Active La- bor Market Policy (ALMP) in many countries. Previous evaluation results show pre- dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the stud- ies are using matching estimators based on the conditional independence assumption (CIA) to estimate these effects and are prone to bias if there are unobserved factors af- fecting the selection process into the programs.

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