Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20981 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 141
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July 1990 and June 1993. To resolve the intriguing sample selection problem, i.e. to find an adequate control group for the group of trainees, we employ matching methods. The training effect is be estimated by using a discrete time hazard rate model. In the empirical analysis no evidence can be found to show that participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration.
Subjects: 
Discrete hazard models
selection bias
matching methods
JEL: 
C40
J64
J20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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