The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Reinhard Hujer (), Stephan Thomsen and Christopher Zeiss ()
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Reinhard Hujer: Goethe University Frankfurt
Christopher Zeiss: Goethe University Frankfurt

No 1117, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed proportional hazard model. Furthermore, particular interest is spent on possible locking-in effects by separate estimation of in- and after-programme effects. Regarding several different programme durations our results show insignificant in- and after-programme effects for short-term programmes, insignificant in-programme and negative after-programme effects for mid-term programmes and negative in- and afterprogramme effects for long-term programmes.

Keywords: duration analysis; programme evaluation; vocational training; treatment effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J24 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2004-04
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Published - published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society , 2006, 90 (2), 299-321

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