The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Michael Fertig

No 1205, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of employment protection. To this end, a control function approach is implemented which utilizes a unique firm-level dataset. This model explicitly accounts for unobserved heterogeneity between participating and non-participating companies by modeling the participation decision process. Our results suggest a positive effect of program participation. However, this positive treatment effect varies considerably across different sub-groups of the treatment as well as the comparison group.

Keywords: firm-level data; European Social Fund; employment policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2004-07
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Published - published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (18), 2279–2301

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