Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel () and Conny Wunsch
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Ruth Miquel: University of St. Gallen

No 1443, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: panel data; matching estimation; active labour market policy; programme evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2004-12
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Published - published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784

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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 (2005)
Working Paper: Long-run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany (2004)
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