This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …

We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes … that training improves the employment opportunities of both men and women, whereas intervention and public works do not …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …