An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

By M. Lechner. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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(International) R&D Collaboration and SMEs: The effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes (2014, background): “…using a selected group of non-subsidized firms that have similar characteristics in X: 4 Matching estimators have been applied and discussed by many scholars, amongst which Angrist (1998), Dehejia and Wahba (1999), Heckman et al. (1997, 1998a, 1998b), Lechner (1999, 2000) and Smith and Todd (2005).”
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis (2010, unknown): “, Gerfin and Lechner, 2002; Biewen, Fitzenberger, Osikominu, and Waller, 2007; Jespersen, Munch, and Skipper, 2007). In this type of study, the program effect is usually measured in terms of the probability of employment at some date after the completion of the program, although earnings can also be”
The use of propensity score matching in the evaluation of active labour market policies (2002, background): “However, enforcement of the common support can result in the loss of a sizeable proportion of the treated population, especially when considering multiple-treatment programmes For example, Gerfin & Lechner (2000) reject 14 per cent of their sample, while Frölich et al. (2000) reject 27 per cent.”
Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany (2006, unknown): “For this, we use a matching approach (Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), Heckman, Ichimura, Todd (1998), Heckman, LaLonde, Smith (1999), Lechner (2000)) based on the estimated dynamic propensity score, as described in the previous section, and apply local linear matching to estimate the average counterfact”
Can training and employment subsidies combat European unemployment (2002, background): “, 1999), in particular if they are only meant to keep unemployed persons off the register (Lechner, 2000), training does appear remarkably effective.”