Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

By Bernd Fitzenberger, S. Speckesser. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification (2007, unknown): “Fitzenberger and Speckesser (2005) and Speckesser (2004) draw their sample from the same administrative records, as we do. However, they restrict their analysis to one special type of government-sponsored training and observe outcomes for 36 months after the beginning of the programme only, compared”
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes (2008, unknown): “12 Fitzenberger and Speckesser (2005) and Fitzenberger, Osikominu, and Völter (2007) obtain similar results but use a methodology which is not comparable to ours and the one of Lechner, Miquel, and Wunsch (2006).”
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High? (2009, methodology): “Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2005) as well as Fitzenberger and Speckesser (2005) argue that given the institutional set-up, the newly created data are informative enough, such that a selection on observables strategy (the conditional independence assumption, CIA) identifies the effects conditional…”
The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “A few programs involving job training (skill upgrading) and retraining (e.g., training in new areas) were also examined (Daniels et al. 2000, Fitzenberger & Speckesser 2007, Lechner et al. 2007).”