Introduction -- A policy history of ETP -- A theoretical perspective on the participants in state training programs -- Training outcomes: impact on the trainees -- ETP at work: a qualitative examination of the delivery of ETP training and its impact on trainees -- Impact on companies -- The...

"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and job creation schemes on the employment prospects of participants. We compare participation in each programme with non-participation as well as with participation in one of the other programmes....

"Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching...