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Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Miquel, Ruth
Lechner, Michael
Wunsch, Conny
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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.
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Keywords: Active labour market policy ; matching estimation ; programme evaluation ; panel data ; Other versions of this item:
Paper Lechner, Michael & Miquel, Ruth & Wunsch, Conny, 2005.
"Long run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany ,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
4851, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
[Downloadable!] (restricted) Michael Lechner & Ruth Miquel & Conny Wunsch, 2004.
"Long-run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany ,"
University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2004
2004-19, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen.
[Downloadable!] Lechner, Michael & Miquel, Ruth & Wunsch, Conny, 2004.
"Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
1443, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
[Downloadable!] Lechner, Michael & Miquel, Ruth & Wunsch, Conny, 2005.
"Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in West Germany ,"
IAB Discussion Paper
200503, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
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