Temario

La teoría económica de las políticas activas del mercado de trabajo (PAMT); Objetivos y principales problemas de la evaluación de las PAMT.

Estrategias empíricas, resultados potenciales y causalidad; Experimentos sociales o controlados; matching; variables instrumentales; diferencias en diferencias

Casos prácticos de evaluación tipo a tipo o evaluación parcial; meta-análisis

Casos prácticos de evaluación a nivel local

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

Módulos de Stata para la evaluación de políticas públicas:

PSMATCH2:

Leuven, E. and B. Sianesi: ¿PSMATCH2: Stata module to perform full Mahalanobis and propensity score matching, common support graphing, and covariate imbalance testing¿, Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics

PSCORE:

Becker, S.O and A. Ichino (2002): ¿Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores¿, The Stata Journal, 2,358-377

Bibliografía básica

Calmfors, L. (1994), Active labour market policies and unemployment: a framework for the analysis of crucial design features, OECD Economic Studies, 22, pp. 7-49.



Heckman, J.J.; H. Ichimura Y C. Taber (1997), "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme", Review of Economic Studies, 64, 605-654.



Heckman, J.J, R.J. Lalonde y J.A. Smith (1999), The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs, in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3a (North-

Holland, Amsterdam).



Martin, J.P y D. Grubb (2001): What works and for whom: a review of OECD countries' experiences with active labour market policies, IFAU working Paper 2001:14, Estocolmo

Bibliografía de profundización

Angrist, J.D. (1998), Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Voluntary Military Service Using Social Security Data on Military Applicants, Econometrica, Vol. 66, 249-288.



Angrist, J.D. y A. Krueger (1991), "Does Compulsory Schooling Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106[4], 979-1014.



Card, D (1990), "The impact of the Mariel boatlift on the Miami labor market", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43, 245-257.



Card, D. y A. Krueger, 1994, ¿Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry¿, American Economic Review, 84, 772-793.



Dearden,L., C. Emmerson, C. Frayne y C. Meghir (2002):¿Education subsidies and school drop-out rates¿,Institute for Fiscal Studies, WP05/11



García-Pérez, J.I. and Y.F. Rebollo Sanz, 2009. "The use of permanent contracts across Spanish regions: Do regional wage subsidies work?," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 33(1), pages 97-130, January.



Kluve, J. (2006): ¿The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy¿, RWI Essen and IZA Bonn



Moffit, R. (2003), "The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective from Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs", NBER



Sánchez-Mangas, R. y V. Sánchez-Marcos: ¿Balancing family and work: the effect of cash benefits for working mothers¿, Labour Economics, 15(6), pp 1127-1142

Revistas

Journal of Labor Economics (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/jole.html)

Journal of Population Economics (http://www.popecon.org/)

Labour Economics (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/labour-economics/)

Enlaces

CEPR: Center for Economic Policy Research (http://www.cepr.org)

IFAU: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (http://www.ifau.se/en/)

IZA: Insitute for Labour Studies (http://www.iza.org)

NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research (http://www.nber.org/)