Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Robert Völter (voelter@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de)
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Robert Völter: Goethe University Frankfurt

No 2121, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: administrative data; local linear matching; employment effects; training programs; multiple treatments; active labor market programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 H43 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2006-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-lab and nep-pbe
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Published - revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355

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