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Estimating the Effect of Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany - A Discrete Hazard-Rate Model with Instrumental Variables

Hujer, R.; Maurer, K.-O.; Wellner, M. - EconWPA - 1997

We estimate a semiparametric single-risk discrete-time duration model to assess the effect of vocational training on the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1986 to 1994. To take into...

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The Impact of Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany -Combining a Discrete Hazard Rate Model with Matching Techniques-

Hujer, R.; Maurer, K.-O.; Wellner, M. - EconWPA - 1997

intriguing sample selection problem, i.e. to find an adequate control group for the group of trainees, we employ a matching … algorithm which was developed in the statistical literature. This matching algorithm uses as the main matching variable the …

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