Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34515 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2926
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment is itself an outcome of the program. Point identification of these effects can only be achieved by usually implausible assumptions. Therefore, weaker and more credible assumptions are suggested that bound various average and quantile effects. For these bounds, consistent, nonparametric estimators are proposed. In a reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings capacity of its participants.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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