Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in West Germany

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel and Conny Wunsch

No 200503, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Westdeutschland; Lock-in-Effekte; Beschäftigungseffekte; Erfolgskontrolle; IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe; Kurzarbeit; prozessproduzierte Daten; Rehabilitationsmaßnahme; Arbeitsbeschaffung; Arbeitsförderung; Teilnehmer; Teilnehmerauswahl; Teilnehmerstruktur; Umschulung; arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme; Vorruhestand; Weiterbildung; 1991-1997 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2005
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Published in/as: Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2011), 742-784, doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01029.x

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Journal Article: LONG‐RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY (2011)
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 (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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