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| Title: | | Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labour market policies  |
| Authors: | | Frölich, Markus Lechner, Michael |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 2144 |
| Abstract: | | We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme participation probabilities, which generate an instrument within well-defined local labour markets. This allows pursuing instrumental variable as well as matching estimation strategies. A specific combination of those methods identifies a new type of effect heterogeneity. We find that ALMP increases individual employment probabilities by about 15% in the short term for unemployed that may be called 'marginal' participants. The effects seem to be considerably smaller for those unemployed not marginal to the participation decision. |
| Subjects: | | local average treatment effect conditional local IV active labour market policy state borders geographic variation Switzerland Fuller estimator |
| JEL: | | J68 C14 C21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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