Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
By M. Lechner, Conny Wunsch. Journal of Labor Economics, 2009
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We estimate short‐run, medium‐run, and long‐run individual labor market effects of training programs for the unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a 10‐year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we use an administrative database compiled for evaluating German training programs. Based on matching estimation adapted to address the various issues that arise in this particular context, we find a clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- Martin Huber
- Conny Wunsch
- M. Lechner
- Fabrizia Mealli
- Barbara Pacini
- Marco Caliendo
- Jochen Kluve
- Bernd Fitzenberger
Citations in the corpus
- The performance of estimators based on the propensity score (2013, methodology): “We start with a sample that covers all 10 See Hujer, Caliendo and Thomsen (2004), Hujer, Thomsen and Zeiss (2006), Caliendo, Hujer and Thomsen (2006, 2008a,b), Wunsch and Lechner (2008), Lechner and Wunsch (2009a), and Hujer and Thomsen (2010). entries into unemployment in the period 2000-2003.”
- Using Secondary Outcomes to Sharpen Inference in Randomized Experiments With Noncompliance (2013, background): “On the other hand, 99% credible intervals for ITTc are narrower and point to a negative effect on employment for compliers of at least 0.5% points, confirming lock-in effects of those participating in the program (van Ours 2004; Lechner and Wunsch 2009; Frumento et al. 2012).”
- The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, unknown): “Lechner and Wunsch (2009) find German training programs to be more effective when carried out during times when unemployment rates are higher and Kluve (2010) finds in his meta-analysis that program effects tend to be higher when unemployment rates are higher.”
- What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes (2008, background): “Lechner and Wunsch (2006b) show that the labour market conditions at programme start also impacton the effectiveness of theprogrammes, especially on the lock-in effects.”