Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Austria

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This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM and Quasi-ML estimators to take into account both the simultaneity of ALMP and spatial interrelations between employment office districts. The results indicate that job schemes in the non-profit sector, wage subsidies, and apprenticeships cause particularly favourable effects on the regional matching function and the job-seeker rate.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5217

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: evaluation ; active labour market policy ; dynamic panel data model ; spatial econometrics ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitsuche ; Berufliche Integration ; Schätzung ; Österreich

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dauth, Wolfgang ; Hujer, Reinhard ; Wolf, Katja
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46053
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET