TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Graversen, Brian Krogh
AU  - Jensen, Peter
        TI  - A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes
        PY  - 2006/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2230
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2230
        AB  - In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete outcomes and we allow the responses to treatment to vary among observationally identical persons. The empirical analysis is based on a register-based dataset that gives information on participation in labour market programmes and subsequent employment. Using a latent variable model, we estimate commonly defined treatment effects, and in particular, the distribution of treatment effects. We do not find any significant mean effects of participation in private sector employment programmes compared to participation in other programmes, but we find evidence of heterogeneity in the treatment effects.
        KW  - employment
KW  - heterogeneous treatment effects
KW  - active labour market programmes
KW  - welfare dependence
        ER  -