Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24096 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 05-02
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
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.
Subjects: 
Active labour market policy
matching estimation
programme evaluation
panel data
JEL: 
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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