Labor Markets and Wage Determination

Labor Markets and Wage Determination
Author: Clark Kerr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520030701

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USA. Compilation of essays on labour market analysis and wage determination after 1946 - discusses the disaggregation of the labour market, effects of trade unionism on wage determination and income distribution, the impact of wage policy restraints on labour relations, etc. References and statistical tables.

Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
Author: Michael Lechner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 364257615X

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Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econometric methods have been developed that will probably influence future empirical work in various other fields of economics as well. This volume contains a selection of original papers from leading experts, among them James J. Heckman, Noble Prize Winner 2000 in economics, addressing these econometric issues at the theoretical and empirical level. The theoretical part contains papers on tight bounds of average treatment effects, instrumental variables estimators, impact measurement with multiple programme options and statistical profiling. The empirical part provides the reader with econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Slovak Republic and Sweden.

Labor Markets in Action

Labor Markets in Action
Author: Richard Barry Freeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations

Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations
Author: David E. Card
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2009
Genre: Unemployed
ISBN: 9783867880978

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This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample contains 199 separate "program estimates"--Estimates of the impact of a particular program on a specific subgroup of participants - drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. For about one-half of the sample we have both a short-term program estimate (for a one-year post-program horizon) and a medium- or long-term estimate (for 2 or 3 year horizons). We categorize the estimated post-program impacts as significantly positive, insignificant, or significantly negative. By this criterion we find that job search assistance programs are more likely to yield positive impacts, whereas public sector employment programs are less likely. Classroom and on-the-job training programs yield relatively positive impacts in the medium term, although in the short-term these programs often have insignificant or negative impacts. We also find that the outcome variable used to measure program impact matters. In particular, studies based on registered unemployment are more likely to yield positive program impacts than those based on other outcomes (like employment or earnings). On the other hand, neither the publication status of a study nor the use of a randomized design is related to the sign or significance of the corresponding program estimate. Finally, we use a subset of studies that focus on post-program employment to compare meta-analytic models for the "effect size" of a program estimate with models for the sign and significance of the estimated program effect. We find that the two approaches lead to very similar conclusions about the determinants of program impact.

Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Author: Mr.Marcello M. Estevão
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2003-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451875649

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Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment rates in the business sector in the 1990s, after controlling for many institutions, country-specific effects, and economic variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional and other economic factors. However, part of this wage moderation may be linked to a composition effect because policies were targeted to low-paid individuals. Whether ALMPs are cost-effective from a budgetary perspective remains to be determined, but they are certainly not substitutes for comprehensive institutional reforms.