"Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and 2000 to 2003 regarding the two outcomes employment and participation in longer training programs. We find that short-term training shows mostly persistently positive and often significant employment effects. Short-term training focusing on testing and monitoring search effort shows slightly smaller effects compared to the pure training variant. The lock-in periods lasted longer in ...
"Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates...
We estimate the short-, medium- and long-run effects of different types of government-sponsored trai...
Reducing unemployment is an important political task in many industrialized economies. In particular...
"Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regardin...
Short–term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding...
"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and...
Comments welcome! With about 800 thousand newly promoted individuals in West and about 1.2 million i...
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employme...
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment e...
Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market polic...
"Seit 2005 müssen arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige dem Arbeitsmarkt zur Verfügung stehen. A...
Öffentlich geförderte Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen zur beruflichen Weiterbildung weisen oftmals nur geri...
Die Untersuchung bewertet für eine Stichprobe von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern die Auswirkungen ih...
In 2003, Germany reformed its active labor market policy. With respect to public sector sponsored tr...
"Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates...
We estimate the short-, medium- and long-run effects of different types of government-sponsored trai...
Reducing unemployment is an important political task in many industrialized economies. In particular...
"Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regardin...
Short–term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding...
"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and...
Comments welcome! With about 800 thousand newly promoted individuals in West and about 1.2 million i...
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employme...
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment e...
Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market polic...
"Seit 2005 müssen arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige dem Arbeitsmarkt zur Verfügung stehen. A...
Öffentlich geförderte Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen zur beruflichen Weiterbildung weisen oftmals nur geri...
Die Untersuchung bewertet für eine Stichprobe von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern die Auswirkungen ih...
In 2003, Germany reformed its active labor market policy. With respect to public sector sponsored tr...
"Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates...
We estimate the short-, medium- and long-run effects of different types of government-sponsored trai...
Reducing unemployment is an important political task in many industrialized economies. In particular...