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The professional-training-gap for adolescents in welfare dependent households

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  • Holleitner, Julia

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; FAU Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany)

  • Fitzenberger, Bernd

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; FAU Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany ; IFS, London, United Kingdom ; CESifo, Munich, Germany ; ROA, Maastricht, Netherlands)

  • Heusler, Anna

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; FAU Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany)

Abstract

"We examine how welfare benefit receipt influences the transition from school into all forms of professional training, including vocational training and higher education. We use a unique data set that combines panel survey data with detailed administrative records of adolescents in Germany and develop a dynamic multiple imputation method to account for missing data. We find that adolescents in welfare dependent households show more fragmented transition patterns than others after leaving school. They are significantly less likely to enter professional training even after controlling for a rich set of individual and household related factors, including school type and grades. A key driver of this training gap is the school type, while school grades play no role. Our results imply a long-lasting impact of early socioeconomic conditions on later labor market transitions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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  • Holleitner, Julia & Fitzenberger, Bernd & Heusler, Anna, 2026. "The professional-training-gap for adolescents in welfare dependent households," Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 60, pages 1-003.
    • Handle: RePEc:iab:iabjlr:v:60:i::p:a003
    DOI: 10.1186/s12651-026-00423-7
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    JEL classification:

    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • C18 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Methodolical Issues: General

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