Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Jochen Kluve (), Hartmut Lehmann () and Christoph Schmidt

No 355, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate how the method succeeds in balancing relevant covariates. The validity of this approach is illustrated using the estimated propensity score as a summary measure of balance. We implement a conditional difference-in-differences estimator of treatment effects based on individual trinomial sequences of pre-treatment labor market status. Our findings suggest that Training raises employment probability, while Intervention Works seems to lead to a negative treatment effect for men. Furthermore, we find that appropriate subdivision of the matched sample for conditional treatment effect estimation can add considerable insight to the interpretation of results.

Keywords: propensity score; transition; Active labor market policy; exact matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2001-09
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Published - revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6), 1270-1295

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