Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
By Bernd Fitzenberger, A. Osikominu, Robert Völter. Social Science Research Network, 2006
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Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The results show a negative lock-in effect for the period right after the beginning of the program and significantly positive treatment effects on employment rates in the medium- and long-run. The differential effects of the three programs compared to one another are mainly driven by differences in the length of the lock-in periods.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations
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- Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “Previous studies find positive effects only in the very long-run (e.g. Fitzenberger et al., 2008; Lechner et al., 2011) or even partly negative effects on employment (e.g. Lechner and Wunsch, 2008).”
- Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity (2011, background): “These strong positive long-run effects are remarkable compared to findings of evaluation studies investigating other programs of ALMP in Germany, such as vocational training or job creation schemes.”