Get training or wait? long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
By: by Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Robert Völter
Contributors: Osikominu, Aderonke
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2121; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2121
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Unemployed; Training of; Occupational training; Unemployment
Description: "Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The results show a negative lock-in effect for the period right after the beginning of the program and significantly positive treatment effects on employment rates in the medium- and long-run. The differential effects of the three programs compared to one another are mainly driven by differences in the length of the lock-in periods"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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