Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Wolfgang Dauth, Reinhard Hujer () and Katja Wolf ()
Additional contact information
Reinhard Hujer: Goethe University Frankfurt
Katja Wolf: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

No 5217, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM and Quasi-ML estimators to take into account both the simultaneity of ALMP and spatial interrelations between employment office districts. The results indicate that job schemes in the non-profit sector, wage subsidies, and apprenticeships cause particularly favourable effects on the regional matching function and the job-seeker rate.

Keywords: evaluation; active labour market policy; dynamic panel data model; spatial econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 H43 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2010-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-lab
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp5217.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Austria (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp5217

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().