Evaluation of Labor Market Programs

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Modern welfare states spend substantial amounts on labor market policies aimed at promoting employment and wages. For successful policy development, monitoring of program outcomes is essential. In an era of limited funds, the program area meets the demands by decision makers and taxpayers for clean empirical evidence on labor policy effectiveness. Which participants in a program actually benefit from it? And how does the initiative affect those who do not participate? Econometric evaluation gives answers to these questions in the absence of controlled policy experiments. Simulation based on empirical regularities in individual behavior enables evaluation even before implementation of new programs. Using these techniques to carry out rigorous cost-benefit analyses, IZA provides independent advice to policymakers, with the goal to contribute to a more targeted allocation of financial resources.

For general information about this program area, please contact: evaluation@iza.org

Gerard J. van den Berg,
Program Director, Free University of Amsterdam

Email:

gjvdberg@xs4all.nl

Marco Caliendo,
Deputy Program Director, IZA

Tel.:	+49-228-38 94 512
Email:	caliendo@iza.org

Highlights

News

The Department of Economics of the Université catholique of Louvain seeks to fill a full-time faculty position (tenure track or tenured) in applied microeconometrics/program evaluation. [more info]
Second Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation: You can now download the slides to Guido Imbens' keynote lecture "The Evaluation of Social Programs: Some Practical Advice".

Events

Date	Title	Location	Deadline
10.10.2008 - 11.10.2008	Second Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation	IZA, Bonn
19.10.2007 - 20.10.2007	3rd Annual IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs	IZA, Bonn
06.10.2006 - 07.10.2006	IFAU/IZA Conference Labor Market Policy Evaluation	Uppsala, Sweden
12.11.2005 - 12.11.2005	Structural Econometric Analysis of Labor Market Policy	IZA, Bonn
23.02.2005 - 25.02.2005	Social Policy Evaluation Annual Conference (SPEAC)	Canberra, Australia

Projects

Long-Run Effects of Start-Up Subsidies

Funded by: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg Project Start: 2008/03/01
Project leader(s):	Marco Caliendo (IZA)
Participants:	Steffen Künn (IZA)
Short Description:	During the 2006 evaluations of the "Hartz reforms", the effects of two kinds of grants for business foundation (start-up subsidy and bridging allowance) were examined over a three-year-period after business start-up. In this project we analyze the long-term effects of both instruments, in order to recommend policy-relevant strategies for the further reform of active labor market policy in Germany. Persons are interviewed five years after entering the programs in order to find out whether they are still successful in the market, how high their income is and, finally, whether their start-ups came along with secondary employment effects.

Last updated: 2008/10/23

Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed

Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) Project Start: 2008/10/01
Project leader(s):	Marco Caliendo (IZA), Arne Uhlendorff (IZA)
Participants:	Ricarda Schmidl (IZA)
Short Description:	In this research project we analyze the transition process from unemployment to employment. Thereby we focus on the determinants of reservation wages and the type and intensity of job search as well as their impact on unemployment duration.

Last updated: 2008/10/08

Recent Discussion Papers

No.	Author(s)	Title	Date	PDF	Link to Abstract
3833	Barry Hirsch, Edward J. Schumacher	Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes	November 2008		Abstract
3829	Wen-Hao Chen, Jean-Yves Duclos	Testing for Poverty Dominance: An Application to Canada	November 2008		Abstract
3825	Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo	The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals	November 2008		Abstract
3824	Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos	A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries	November 2008		Abstract
3820	Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof	The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women	November 2008		Abstract
3817	Norma B. Coe, Maarten Lindeboom	Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows	November 2008		Abstract
3802	Simen Gaure, Knut Roed, Lars Westlie	The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality	October 2008		Abstract
3800	Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias	Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics (forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)	October 2008		Abstract
3790	Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer, Christoph Scheicher	Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany	October 2008		Abstract
3785	Helena Skyt Nielsen, Torben Sørensen, Christopher Taber	Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform	October 2008		Abstract
3781	Harry J. Holzer	Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?	October 2008		Abstract
3776	Harry J. Holzer	Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?	October 2008		Abstract
3772	Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner, Gesine Stephan	Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms	October 2008		Abstract
3769	Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally, Martina Viarengo	Does Money Matter for Schools?	October 2008		Abstract
3768	Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Wagner	Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?	October 2008		Abstract
3767	Gesine Stephan, André Pahnke	The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem	October 2008		Abstract
3766	Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere	Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms	October 2008		Abstract
3753	Spyros Konstantopoulos	Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs	October 2008		Abstract
3738	Dany Brouillette, Guy Lacroix	Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment	September 2008		Abstract
3736	Rolf Aaberge, Lennart Flood	Evaluation of an In-Work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers	September 2008		Abstract

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw	"Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data", in: Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 102 (2), 271-309.
Zhong Zhao	"Using Matching to Estimate Treatment Effects: Data Requirement, Matching Metrics and Monte Carlo Evidence", in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86 (1), 91-107.
Jaap H. Abbring, Gerard J. van den Berg	"Analyzing the Effect of Dynamically Assigned Treatments Using Duration Models, Binary Treatment Models, and Panel Data Models", in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (1), 5-20.
Zvi Eckstein, Gerard J. van den Berg	"Empirical Labor Search: A Survey", in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 531-564.
Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig	"Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching", in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 31-72.