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Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence Across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We build on findings showing that different skill types have structurally different depreciation rates. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills. To...
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128839
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Determinants of Further Training : Evidence for Germany
Grund, Christian - 2010
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135987
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136712
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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009
both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153023
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773490
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Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany
Hujer, Reinhard - 2007
Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from January …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778028
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Deja Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771630
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
Huber, Martin - 2015
outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016357
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144940