Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Argentina

J Jo ob b C Cr re ea at ti io on n a an nd d J Jo ob b D De es st tr ru uc ct ti io on n i in n A Ar rg ge en nt ti in na a Development Bank for the "Labor Markets and Globalization Conference", October 2003. We are grateful to Gustavo Marquez and Carolina Czastkiewicz for their useful comments and to Hugo Hopenhayn who kindly gave us the panel data for the years 1989 to 1995. We would also lik...

IT valuation in turbulent times

The IT productivity paradox has largely been resolved at the industrial level. At the firm level however, there is still much to understand regarding how IT contributes to firm performance. This paper investigates the performance impacts of two modes of IT valuation – efficiency and KM (Knowledge Management), by taking two external environmental factors – dynamism and hostility – into account. ...

Job Creation and Destruction

The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very informative ad...

Identifying Effect Heterogeneity to Improve the Efficiency of Job Creation Schemes in Germany

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect heterogeneity and using this information for a better allocation of individuals therefore bears some sc...