Using matching estimators to evaluate alternative youth employment programs: Evidence from France, 1986–1988

Brodaty, Thomas; Crépon, Bruno; Fougère, Denis

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“…To include workers working overtime hours, Rubin's model can be extended using the framework with multiple treatments as it was recently developed in Imbens (1999), Lechner (1999), and Brodaty, Crépon, and Fougère (1999). In 1981, before the change in the standard workweek, the overtime premium was 25% for all hours between 41 and 44 and 50% for all hours strictly above 44.…”

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Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Crépon

Kramarz

2002

Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by the Deutsche Post AG. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor, (2) internationalization of labor markets, (3) the welfare state and labor markets, (4) labor markets in transition countries, (5) the future of labor, (6) evaluation of labor market policies and projects and (7) general labor economics. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. Mitterrand's election in May 1981, the government decided to increase the minimum wage by 5%. Then, as promised in its electoral program, the socialist government reduced the workweek from 40 to 39 hours. At the same time, it mandated stable monthly earnings for minimum wage workers and recommended the stabilization of monthly earnings for other workers (recommendations followed by 90% of the firms). We show that workers directly affected by these changes-those working 40 hours in March 1981 as well as those working overtime at the same date -were more likely to lose their jobs between 1981 and 1982 than workers not affected by the changes-those working 36 to 39 hours in March 1981. Moreover, because the decree enforcing the new standard was issued faster than earlier promises, some firms had no time to complete negotiations and their workers were still working 40 hours after February 1, 1982. We show that these workers were also strongly affected by the reduction in standard hours. Our estimates of the impact of this one-hour reduction of the workweek on employment losses vary between 2% and 4%, depending on the methodology or the data used. Furthermore, we show that minimum wage workers were most affected by the changes. This result, consistent with...

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Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

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Kramarz

2002

Journal of Political Economy

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“…Most of the programs consist in providing training, job seeking support, vocational course, and adaptation training (for the youngest). Microeconometric studies carried out by Bonnal et al (1997), Fougère et al (2000), and Brodaty et al(2001) have investigated the impact of such policies on employment prospects of young people and unskilled workers. However, few contributions have addressed the issue of employment programs for laid off or displaced workers 2 .…”

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. ABSTRACT Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced WorkersIn this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates show that this program succeeded in increasing the employment rate of trainees by approximately 6 points of percentage in the medium-term, namely in the second and third years after the date of entry into the program. This improvement is essentially due to an increase of their reemployment rate in regular jobs, namely jobs under long-term labour contracts.JEL Classification: C41, J24, J64, J68

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“…4 Microeconometric studies looking at the relative effects of Swedish programmes include among others Carling and Gustafson (1999) for self-employment subsidies versus subsidised jobs, Melkersson (1999a, b) and Frölich, Heshmati and Lechner (2000) for programmes targeted at the disabled, Larsson (2000) for youth programmes, Johansson and Martinson (2000) for two types of labour market training programmes and Carling and Richardson (2001) for the relative efficiency of eight of the Swedish programmes. Evaluations of differential programme impacts outside the Swedish context include the recent work by Gerfin and Lechner (2000) for Switzerland and by Brodaty, Crépon and Fougère (2000) as well as Bonnal, Fougère and Sérandon (1997) for France, and the earlier work by Ridder (1986) for the Netherlands.…”

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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

Sianesi¹

2002

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Using matching estimators to evaluate alternative youth employment programs: Evidence from France, 1986–1988

Cited by 91 publications

References 11 publications

Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

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