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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of occupational training programs for the unemployed before and after the substantial amendments in German labor market legislation known as Hartz reforms. Based on the official evaluation of the reforms, we show that program impacts vary much across...
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The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …
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impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …
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This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
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effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …
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estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …
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We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...
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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 …
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reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
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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 …
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