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Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts

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  • Schneider, Hilmar

    () (CEPS/INSTEAD)

  • Uhlendorff, Arne

    () (University of Mannheim)

  • Zimmermann, Klaus F.

    () (IZA and University of Bonn)

Abstract

We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German Employment Office. The participation effect is found to be positive and of relevant size, but not statistically significant. This indicates that selection biases detected in the allocation process of individuals to the program can be adjusted by econometric techniques, but only on the prize of reduced significance levels. Given the small sample sizes of pilot projects this calls for social experiments in controlled project designs.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 5599.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2011
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Publication status: published as 'Econometrics vs. Project Design: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Workfare Project' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 65-85
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  1. Arni, Patrick, 2012. "Kausale Evaluation von Pilotprojekten: Die Nutzung von Randomisierung in der Praxis," IZA Standpunkte 52, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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