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Beautiful Serbia

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Holger Bonin () (IZA and DIW Berlin)
Ulf Rinne () (IZA and Free University of Berlin)

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The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program - the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro - on measures of subjective well-being approximating individual welfare. According to our estimates, the positive impact of this particular program appears much stronger judged by subjective well-being than judged by the immediate labor market effect.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2533.

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Date of creation: Dec 2006
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Keywords: subjective well-being; program evaluation; Serbia and Montenegro;

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J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Public Policy
H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
P27 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Performance and Prospects

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