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

Hilmar Schneider (), Arne Uhlendorff and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 5599, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: social experiments; workfare; labor supply; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 J22 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011-03
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Published - 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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