increase in the amount of curriculum per unit of time (learning intensity) at the end of higher secondary schooling on nine … does rather not depend on schooling investments in late adolescence. …

Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market policy in terms of … on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe …. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms and trainees; for the group of non trainees potential negative effects … has been found in some studies. The incidence and the impact of training depend on the national education and training …

This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of … probability also depends on labour market return expectations. In particular, the absolute level of the personal unemployment risk …, rather than the reduction of the unemployment risk to be expected from higher education, is a strong incentive to pursue …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment …The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German … effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific continuous training programs using several state-of-the-art propensity …

also pursue less ambitious goals with their training participation. An important reason for these differences during the …This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to … life cycle might be that firms do not offer the 'right' training forms and contents. Older employees get higher returns …