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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences

Bergemann, Annette (contributor); … - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009

workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860913

Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...

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Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2015

This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...

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Microeconometric evaluation of the active labour market policy in Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael - 2000

In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...

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Unemployment and subsequent employment stability : does labour market policy matter?

Wulfgramm, Melike; Fervers, Lukas - 2013

-unemployment employment stability ; job match quality ; reemployment duration ; active labour market policy ; unemployment benefits …

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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment

Arni, Patrick - 2015

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training … operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program … older job seekers, turns out to increase the job finding of participants by 9 percentage points (72% vs. 63% in the control …

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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data

Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002

training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …

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The return to labor market mobility : an evaluation of relocation assistance for the unemployed

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015

raises the question of why only minor shares of unemployed job seekers relocate in order to find employment. The German … active labor market policy offers a subsidy covering moving costs to incentivize unemployed job seekers to search/accept jobs … unemployed job seekers who participate in the subsidy program and move to a distant region receive higher wages and find more …

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