Arbeitspapier
Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with detailed regional information. Using an exogenous variation in the participation probabilities across fairly autonomous regional units (cantons) generated by the federal government, we identify the effects of ALMP by comparing individuals living in the same local labour market but in different cantons. Taking account of small sample problems occurring in IV estimation, our results suggest that ALMP increases individual employment probabilities by about 15% in the short term for a weighted subpopulation of compliers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1095
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
- Subject
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local average treatment effect
active labour market policy
state borders
geographic variation
weak instruments
small sample problems of IV
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit
Schätzung
Schweiz
treatment effect
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Frölich, Markus
Lechner, Michael
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2004
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Frölich, Markus
- Lechner, Michael
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2004
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