This paper analyzes the effectiveness of training programs for the unemployed before and after the Hartz reforms. The results are indicating that training programs are performing better than commonly believed. However, their positive impact in terms of employment probability is weak, which might cause a seemingly negative effect in a short-term perspective, due to the locking-in effect. Since training is only slightly increasing the employment prospects of participants, it might take years until this is reflected in an employment probability being higher for participants than for non-participants. The length of the underlying observation period is thus becoming crucial for the result. This might also to a large extent explain the contradict...
"Between 2005 and 2007 the German government raised a per-capita amount of around 10.000 Euros for e...
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Effektivitaet oeffentlich finanzierter Weiterbildungs- und Umschulu...
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the...
Der Beitrag analysiert die Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung im Rahmen der aktiven...
In 2003, Germany reformed its active labor market policy. With respect to public sector sponsored tr...
Die Untersuchung bewertet für eine Stichprobe von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern die Auswirkungen ih...
Öffentlich geförderte Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen zur beruflichen Weiterbildung weisen oftmals nur geri...
"Seit 2005 müssen arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige dem Arbeitsmarkt zur Verfügung stehen. A...
Comments welcome! With about 800 thousand newly promoted individuals in West and about 1.2 million i...
"We analyse the effects of public sector sponsored training for the unemployed in the transition pro...
"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and...
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employme...
"Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates...
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates ...
Reducing unemployment is an important political task in many industrialized economies. In particular...
"Between 2005 and 2007 the German government raised a per-capita amount of around 10.000 Euros for e...
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Effektivitaet oeffentlich finanzierter Weiterbildungs- und Umschulu...
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the...
Der Beitrag analysiert die Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung im Rahmen der aktiven...
In 2003, Germany reformed its active labor market policy. With respect to public sector sponsored tr...
Die Untersuchung bewertet für eine Stichprobe von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern die Auswirkungen ih...
Öffentlich geförderte Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen zur beruflichen Weiterbildung weisen oftmals nur geri...
"Seit 2005 müssen arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige dem Arbeitsmarkt zur Verfügung stehen. A...
Comments welcome! With about 800 thousand newly promoted individuals in West and about 1.2 million i...
"We analyse the effects of public sector sponsored training for the unemployed in the transition pro...
"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and...
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employme...
"Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates...
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates ...
Reducing unemployment is an important political task in many industrialized economies. In particular...
"Between 2005 and 2007 the German government raised a per-capita amount of around 10.000 Euros for e...
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Effektivitaet oeffentlich finanzierter Weiterbildungs- und Umschulu...
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the...