Long run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Ruth Miquel, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

No 4851, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6bn euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative database 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. 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.

Keywords: Active labour market policy; Matching estimation; Programme evaluation; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-01
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Journal Article: LONG‐RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY (2011)
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Working Paper: Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany (2005)
Working Paper: Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany (2004)
Working Paper: Long-run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany (2004)
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