Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs

Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed will find jobs or that the...

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Main Author:	Dar, Amit
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS BEST PRACTICE COMPARISON GROUPS COMPUTER SKILLS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA REQUIREMENTS DATA SOURCES ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION CAPACITY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY EVALUATION RESEARCH EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATION STANDARDS EVALUATION TECHNIQUES EVALUATORS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXPERIMENTS GDP IMPACT EVALUATION INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING MANAGERS METHODOLOGIES PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROBABILITY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESEARCH RESULTS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TIME LAG TREATMENT GROUPS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/5162872/impact-evaluation-techniques-evaluating-active-labor-market-programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11829

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spelling	okr-10986-118292021-04-23T14:02:57Z Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs Dar, Amit ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS BEST PRACTICE COMPARISON GROUPS COMPUTER SKILLS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA REQUIREMENTS DATA SOURCES ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION CAPACITY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY EVALUATION RESEARCH EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATION STANDARDS EVALUATION TECHNIQUES EVALUATORS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXPERIMENTS GDP IMPACT EVALUATION INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING MANAGERS METHODOLOGIES PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROBABILITY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESEARCH RESULTS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TIME LAG TREATMENT GROUPS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WAGES Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed will find jobs or that the underemployed will increase their productivity and earnings. ALMPs include job search assistance, training and retraining, and job creation programs (public works, micro-enterprise development, and wage subsidies). With economic reform, increasing liberalization of markets and growing concerns about the problems of unemployment, ALMPs have increasingly become an attractive option for policymakers. Expenditure on these programs has, however, not increased substantially over the 1990s, remaining fairly constant at around 0.7% of GDP. This reflects to some extent the ambivalence of policymakers about the effectiveness of ALMPs. A frequently asked question is, "Are these programs effective?" This note will focus on impact evaluations of ALMPs. It will discuss the objectives and importance of rigorous evaluations, highlight commonly used impact evaluation techniques, and discuss who should conduct evaluations. 2012-08-13T16:08:07Z 2012-08-13T16:08:07Z 2002-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/5162872/impact-evaluation-techniques-evaluating-active-labor-market-programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11829 English World Bank Employment Policy Primer; No. 2 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic	ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS BEST PRACTICE COMPARISON GROUPS COMPUTER SKILLS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA REQUIREMENTS DATA SOURCES ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION CAPACITY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY EVALUATION RESEARCH EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATION STANDARDS EVALUATION TECHNIQUES EVALUATORS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXPERIMENTS GDP IMPACT EVALUATION INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING MANAGERS METHODOLOGIES PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROBABILITY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESEARCH RESULTS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TIME LAG TREATMENT GROUPS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WAGES
spellingShingle	ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS BEST PRACTICE COMPARISON GROUPS COMPUTER SKILLS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA REQUIREMENTS DATA SOURCES ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION CAPACITY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY EVALUATION RESEARCH EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATION STANDARDS EVALUATION TECHNIQUES EVALUATORS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES EXPERIMENTS GDP IMPACT EVALUATION INTERVENTION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING MANAGERS METHODOLOGIES PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROBABILITY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESEARCH RESULTS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TIME LAG TREATMENT GROUPS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WAGES Dar, Amit Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
relation	World Bank Employment Policy Primer; No. 2
description	Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed will find jobs or that the underemployed will increase their productivity and earnings. ALMPs include job search assistance, training and retraining, and job creation programs (public works, micro-enterprise development, and wage subsidies). With economic reform, increasing liberalization of markets and growing concerns about the problems of unemployment, ALMPs have increasingly become an attractive option for policymakers. Expenditure on these programs has, however, not increased substantially over the 1990s, remaining fairly constant at around 0.7% of GDP. This reflects to some extent the ambivalence of policymakers about the effectiveness of ALMPs. A frequently asked question is, "Are these programs effective?" This note will focus on impact evaluations of ALMPs. It will discuss the objectives and importance of rigorous evaluations, highlight commonly used impact evaluation techniques, and discuss who should conduct evaluations.
format	Publications & Research :: Brief
author	Dar, Amit
author_facet	Dar, Amit
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title	Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
title_short	Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
title_full	Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
title_fullStr	Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
title_full_unstemmed	Impact Evaluation : Techniques for Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
title_sort	impact evaluation : techniques for evaluating active labor market programs
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/12/5162872/impact-evaluation-techniques-evaluating-active-labor-market-programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11829
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