Research and Statistics

Evaluating the econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes using administrative data: evidence from the Jobseeker’s Allowance pilots

Working Paper No. 50

by Andrew Thomas

This technical report explores whether it is possible to use the Department for Work and Pensions’ administrative databases to robustly estimate the impact of labour market interventions and the circumstances under which the estimates could be expected to be close to the true impacts of those interventions.

September 2008

ISBN 978 1 84712 397 8

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