Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
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* We are grateful to the State Secretariat of Economic (seco) Affairs of the Swiss Government and the Bundesamt für Sozialversicherung for providing the data. as well as from seco is gratefully acknowledged. Heidi Steiger provided valuable research assistance. Monica Curti and Jonathan Gast, both seco, were also particularly helpful for many practical details of this study. A preliminary version of this paper has been presented at the annual meeting of the section on population economics of the German Economic Association in Zurich, 2000, as well as at a seminar at IZA in Bonn, for helpful comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are our own.
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IZA Discussion Paper No. 154
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland In the second part of the 1990’s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data orig...
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