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| Title: | | Get training or wait? Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany  |
| Authors: | | Fitzenberger, Bernd Osikominu, Aderonke Völter, Robert |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 2121 |
| 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 long-run 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. |
| Subjects: | | multiple treatments training programs employment effects local linear matching administrative data active labor market programs |
| JEL: | | C14 J68 H43 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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