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

Michael Fertig

No 10, RWI Discussion Papers from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

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: Employment Policy; European Social Fund; Firm-Level Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Journal Article: The effectiveness of qualification measures for employed workers - an evaluation study for Saxony (2007)
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