Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in west germany
By: by Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch.
Contributors: Miquel, Ruth
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1443; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1443
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching methods. We identify the effects of different types of training programmes over a horizon of more than seven years. Using bias corrected weighted multiple neighbours matching we find that all programmes have negative effects in the short run and positive effects over a horizon of about four years. However, for substantive training programmes with duration of about two years gains in employment probabilities of more than 10% points appear to be sustainable, but come at the price of large negative lock-in effects"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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