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

58 Pages Posted: 14 Sep 2001

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Jochen Kluve

RWI; Humboldt University of Berlin; IZA

Hartmut Lehmann

University of Bologna - School of Economics, Management, and Statistics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Christoph M. Schmidt

RWI - Leibniz-Insitut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI Essen); Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: September 2001

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: Active Labor Market Policy, Transition, Exact Matching, Propensity Score

JEL Classification: C41, J68

Suggested Citation

Kluve, Jochen and Kluve, Jochen and Lehmann, Hartmut F. and Schmidt, Christoph M., Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples (September 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=283449 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.283449

Jochen Kluve

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