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Get training or wait?: long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Robert Völter

No 200617, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

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

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Westdeutschland; berufliche Reintegration; Berufsbildung; Lock-in-Effekte; Beschäftigungseffekte; Erfolgskontrolle; IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe; IAB-Leistungsempfängerhistorik; Teilnehmer; Arbeitslose; Trainingsmaßnahme; Übungsfirma; Umschulung; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Weiterbildung; Wirkungsforschung; 1986-1994 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 H43 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2006
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