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Anthony Strittmatter
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Prof. Ph.D.
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Strittmatter
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Anthony
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Journal of Economic Behavior and OrganizationVolume: 171
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Econometrics Journal
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PublicationHeterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach( 2020)We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-experimental causal empirical models with Lasso-type estimators. The empirical analyses are based on rich administrative data from Swiss social security records. We find considerable heterogeneities only during the first six months after the start of training. Consistent with previous results of the literature, unemployed persons with fewer employment opportunities profit more from participating in these programmes. Furthermore, we also document heterogeneous employment effects by residence status. Finally, we show the potential of easy-to-implement programme participation rules for improving average employment effects of these active labour market programmes.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Human Resources
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PublicationSorting in the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission ScandalThe disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the impact of environmental quality on the market, we collect data from a used-car online advertisement platform. We find that the supply of used VW diesel vehicles increases after the VW emission scandal. The positive supply effects increase with the probability of manipulation. Furthermore, we find negative impacts on the asking prices of used cars subject to a high probability of manipulation. We rationalize these findings with a model for sorting by the environmental quality of used cars.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementVolume: 101
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PublicationPractical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching EstimationThis paper assesses the performance of common estimators adjusting for differences in covariates, like matching and regression, when faced with so-called common support problems. It also shows how different procedures suggested in the literature to tackle common support problems affect the properties of such estimators. Based on an Empirical Monte Carlo simulation design, a lack of common support is found to increase the root mean squared error (RMSE) of all investigated parametric and semiparametric estimators. Dropping observa¬tions that are off support usually improves their performance, although the amount of improvement depends on the particular method used.Type: journal articleJournal: Econometric ReviewsVolume: 38Issue: 2
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PublicationHeterogeneous Earnings Effects of the Job Corps by Gender Earnings: A Translated Quantile ApproachSeveral studies of the Job Corps tend to find more positive earnings effects for males than for females. This effect heterogeneity favouring males contrasts with the results of the majority of other training programmes’ evaluations. Applying the translated quantile approach of Bitler, Hoynes, and Domina (2014), I investigate a potential mechanism behind the surprising findings for the Job Corps. My results provide suggestive evidence that the effect of heterogeneity by gender operates through existing gender earnings inequality rather than Job Corps trainability differences.Type: journal articleJournal: Labour EconomicsIssue: 61
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PublicationDirect and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployedThis paper evaluates the effects of awarding vouchers for vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, as well as the potential mechanism through which they operate. This study assesses the direct effects of voucher assignment net of ac¬tual redemption, which may be driven by preference shaping and learning about possible human capital investments or simply by the costs of information gathering. Using a formal mediation analy-sis framework based on sequential conditional independence assumptions and semiparametric match¬ing estimators, our results suggest that the negative short-term and positive long-term em-ployment ef¬fects of receiving a voucher are mainly driven by actual training participation. However, the direct ef¬fect of just obtaining a voucher is negative over the short-run as well. This result points to potential losses in the effectiveness of such training provision systems if individuals decide not to redeem vouchers, as employment chances are lower than under non-award over the short-run and under redemption over the long-run, which makes non-re¬demption the least attractive option.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)Volume: 181Issue: 2DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12279
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PublicationEmployment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany(Cornell University, 2016-07-19)
;Doerr, Annabelle ;Fitzenberger, Bernd ;Kruppe, Thomas ;Paul, MarieParticipation in intensive training programs for the unemployed in Germany is allocated by awarding training vouchers. Using rich administrative data for all vouchers and actual program participation, the authors provide first estimates of the short-run and long-run employment and earnings effects of receiving a training voucher award based on a selection-on-observables assumption. The results imply that, after the award, voucher recipients experience long periods of lower labor market success compared to had they not received training vouchers. Small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings were observed four to seven years after the receipt of the voucher award. In addition, the findings suggest stronger positive effects both for all low-skilled individuals who were awarded and redeemed a voucher and for low-skilled and medium skilled individuals who chose to take degree courses than for higher-skilled recipients.Type: journal articleJournal: Industrial and Labor Relations ReviewVolume: 70Issue: 3Scopus© Citations 20 -
PublicationReturn-to-job during and after parental leaveDespite a rising career orientation among females and growing efforts of firms to alleviate work–family conflicts, female employees often find it difficult to combine career development with having children. Female careers appear more boundaryless than male careers, and gender differences in the sociological role model persist. Using exceptional longitudinal company data, this paper studies the return-to-job of female employees after first birth in the case of Germany with long Parental Leave coverage. Parental Leave durations often last for 3 years or longer. Our results show that more than 50% of those in Parental Leave do not return to their job afterwards. About 31% of female employees return to part-time work during Parental Leave, and among these, only 57% continue working in their job after the end of Parental Leave. And, having returned to their job after the end of Parental Leave, only 81% continue to work in their job one year after return. Furthermore, female employees have their first child, when their careers have been particularly successful. Overall, the evidence is consistent with the view that the birth of the first child and the experience of the subsequent work–life conflict can lead to a major reassessment of work preferences among female employees. Although a higher career orientation before birth is positively associated with a return-to-job, management must be aware that a sizeable share of female employees, even among the most career oriented and the most successful, may not return to their job after first birth.Type: journal articleJournal: International Journal of Human Resource ManagementVolume: 27Issue: 8
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