From: Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Author | Country | Treatment | Sample | Horizon | Estimation | Employment | Unemployment | Education | Quality/Wages |
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Cockx et al. (2013) | Belgium | Receipt of UB during part-time work | Women aged 18 to 25 years, unemployed for at least 9 months | Up to 12 months after the end of the program | Timing-of-events | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Caliendo et al. (2011) | Germany (5) | Wage subsidies up to one (two) years | Up to 5 years after treatment entry | Unemployment entrants up to 25 years, East and West separately | Propensity Score Weighting | + | n/a | - | n/a |
Brodaty et al. (2011) | France (2) | General or job- oriented practical training | Low-skilled unemployed below 27 years | Up to 6 month after treatment | PSM with PS derived from a competing-risk duration model | 0 (relative to JCS) - relative to fixed-term contracts | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Hardoy (2005) | Norway | Subsidized employment in the public and in the private sector | Unemployment entrants between 16 to 25 | 2 years after unemployment entry | Structural discrete choice model with selection | 0 | - (also ALMP participation) | + | n/a |
Larrson (2003) | Sweden (6) | Youth practice (subsidized work) up to 6 months and | Youth 20 to 24 years, first-time unemployed for at least 4 months | One and two years after program start | Selection on Observables Assumption (Propensity Score Matching) | 0 | n/a | 0 | 0 |
Bell et al. (1999) | UK (1) | Wage subsidies | Unemployed UB benefit claimants for longer than 6 months, 18 to 24 years | Up to 1 year | Trend-adjusted DID | n/a | n/a | n/a | + |
Blundell et al. (2004) | UK (2) | Intensified job search assistance/mentoring and wage subsidies, threat of sanctions | Unemployed, 18 to 24 years, longer than 6 months unemployed | First 4 months after program entry | DID using age and regional variation in eligibility | Men: + women: 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dorsett (2006) | UK (3) | Wage subsidies relative to other NDYP-options | Unemployed male UB benefit claimants for longer than 6 months, 18 to 24 years | Up to 1.5 years | Propensity Score Matching | + (rel. to all other options) | - (rel. to all other options) | n/a | n/a |