Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labor Market Programs

Larsson, Laura

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“…This procedure was repeated until balance was obtained. 18 Focusing on the covariate means or the standardized difference in means is in line with several other applications of propensity score matching (see for example Smith and Todd, 2004;Sianesi, 2002;Wahba, 1999 andand Larsson, 2003). Previous literature does not give any guidance, when it comes to what levels of standardized absolute differences in means are acceptable.…”

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“…divorce) will be estimated by propensity score matching. This method originates in statistics Rubin, 1983, 1984) and has lately received increasing attention in economics (See Heckman et al, 1997;Wahba, 1999, 2002;Sianesi, 2001Sianesi, , 2002Lechner, 2002a, b;Larsson, 2003 andSmith andTodd, 2004). There are two main advantages of propensity score matching, over other non-experimental evaluation methods.…”

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Lost jobs, broken marriages

Eliason

2011

J Popul Econ

121

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• ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change. Established in 1989 to identify, explain, model and forecast social change in Britain at the individual and household level, the Centre specialises in research using longitudinal data.• ESRC UK Longitudinal Centre. This national resource centre was established in October 1999 to promote the use of longitudinal data and to develop a strategy for the future of large-scale longitudinal surveys. It was responsible for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and for the ESRC's interest in the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study• European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences. ECASS is an interdisciplinary research centre which hosts major research programmes and helps researchers from the EU gain access to longitudinal data and cross-national datasets from all over Europe.The British Household Panel Survey is one of the main instruments for measuring social change in Britain. The BHPS comprises a nationally representative sample of around 5,500 households and over 10,000 individuals who are reinterviewed each year. The questionnaire includes a constant core of items accompanied by a variable component in order to provide for the collection of initial conditions data and to allow for the subsequent inclusion of emerging research and policy concerns.Among the main projects in ISER's research programme are: the labour market and the division of domestic responsibilities; changes in families and households; modelling households' labour force behaviour; wealth, well-being and socio-economic structure; resource distribution in the household; and modelling techniques and survey methodology.BHPS data provide the academic community, policymakers and private sector with a unique national resource and allow for comparative research with similar studies in Europe, the United States and Canada.BHPS data are available from the Data Archive at the University of Essex http://www.data-archive.ac.ukFurther information about the BHPS and other longitudinal surveys can be obtained by telephoning +44 (0) 1206 873543. ABSTRACTThe objective of this paper is to examine the effect of a spouse's job loss on the probability that his/her marriage ends in divorce. Previous empirical studies on this matter are sparse, and the results inconclusive. Moreover, all previous studies focus on the short-term effects. A unique Swedish data set is used, containing all married couples where one of the spouses was displaced, due to an establishment closure, and an appropriate comparison group. I provide further evidence that the adverse consequences of a job loss cannot be measured in monetary terms alone, and extend the current literature on the impact of job loss (unemployment) on marital instability by also investigate the impact in the long run. The results suggest the existence of a destabilizing impact on marriages from both husbands', and wives', job losses, and both in the short and the longer run.JEL Classification: J12, J65

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Lost jobs, broken marriages

Eliason

2011

J Popul Econ

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“…In fact, both at the OECD (OECD, 1996) and European Union (European Commission, 1998) levels, labour market programmes are increasingly viewed as important measures to reduce long-term unemployment. 4 Microeconometric studies looking at the relative effects of Swedish programmes include among others Carling and Gustafson (1999) for self-employment subsidies versus subsidised jobs, Melkersson (1999a, b) and Frölich, Heshmati and Lechner (2000) for programmes targeted at the disabled, Larsson (2000) for youth programmes, Johansson and Martinson (2000) for two types of labour market training programmes and Carling and Richardson (2001) for the relative efficiency of eight of the Swedish programmes. Evaluations of differential programme impacts outside the Swedish context include the recent work by Gerfin and Lechner (2000) for Switzerland and by Brodaty, Crépon and Fougère (2000) as well as Bonnal, Fougère and Sérandon (1997) for France, and the earlier work by Ridder (1986) for the Netherlands.…”

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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

Sianesi¹

2002

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“…In addition, results from two studies on persons who received training at approximately the same time as our third cohort are comparable. The studies are Regnér (1997) and Larsson (2000), the latter focusing on young adults. It is interesting to note that Friedlander et al (1997), when summarizing a number of evaluations of labor market training programs in the United States, drew similar conclusions.…”

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“…Some of these studies have focused on particular groups. Examples include Edin (1988) who studied training among workers displaced by a pulp plant closing in 1977, in a small town in the north of Sweden; Ackum (1991) who studied persons aged 16-24 in Stockholm in 1981;and Larsson (2000) who analyzed persons aged 20-24 who became unemployed during 1992 and 1993.…”

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Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s

Andrén

Gustafsson

2004

International Journal of Manpower

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Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect modeled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved component. We investigate labor market training for three cohorts during the 80s and the beginning of the 90s on its effect on earnings. We separate the analysis between Swedish-born and foreign-born individuals to identify differences in their responses to training. The results indicate that there is positive sorting into training. We find that the proportion of trainees having positive rewards from training was not very different from the proportion having negative rewards. This means that the results do not support the view that from efficiency considerations, too few persons were enrolled in labor market training during this period. Differences in results across cohorts can be interpreted as being caused by rapid changes in the labor market. Further, consistent with results from several previous studies we find that being young often means no positive pay-off from training, and the same is found for persons with only primary education. In conflict with what earlier studies have shown, we found that males have a better pay-off from training than females. Rewards from training were higher for foreign-born than for natives and rewards among the former vary by place of birth.Keywords: labor market training, non-experimental estimator, positive sorting, unobserved heterogeneity to training reward, random coefficient model.a We thank the Institute of Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) for financial support, and Christoph M. Schmidt, Erik Mellander and participants at IFAU seminar in autumn 2000 for useful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

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Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labor Market Programs

Cited by 51 publications

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Lost jobs, broken marriages

Lost jobs, broken marriages

Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s

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