Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Froelich, Markus; Lechner, Michael
• 署名单位: University of Mannheim; University of St Gallen; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap08148
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1014-1029
• 关键词: identification; EMPLOYMENT

摘要

We estimate the effects of active labor market policies (ALMPs) on subsequent employment and earnings by nonparametric instrumental variable estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in program participation probabilities to generate an instrument within well-defined local labor markets. We find that implementation of an ALMP increased individual employment probabilities by about 15% for unemployed that might be considered marginal participants.