both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …