Does the order and timing of active labour market programmes matter?

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler, 15 October 2007

So far, the majority of labour market policy evaluation studies have concentrated on the impact of a single programme compared to participation or to nonparticipation in other programmes. The authors of CEPR DP6521 use a more dynamic evaluation framework and extend the focus to issues such as the order and timing of programmes and the effects of programme sequences, i.e. multiple participation in the same programme, or different programmes.

For the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of active labour market policy evaluation studies for Europe. So far, the majority of them have concentrated on the impact of a single programme compared to participation or to nonparticipation in other programmes.

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URL: http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=6521.asp
Topics: Labour markets
Tags: Active Labour market policy, matching estimation, panel data, programme evaluation

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