. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe …. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms and trainees; for the group of non trainees potential negative effects … has been found in some studies. The incidence and the impact of training depend on the national education and training …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment …The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German … effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific continuous training programs using several state-of-the-art propensity …

This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of … probability also depends on labour market return expectations. In particular, the absolute level of the personal unemployment risk …, rather than the reduction of the unemployment risk to be expected from higher education, is a strong incentive to pursue …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practical concern is the effects of … continuous vocational training in East Germany. The empirical application is based on a large cross-section that covers about 0 … participation process. However, in some cases suitable exclusion restrictions are indeed capable of bounding the treatment effects …

Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market policy in terms of … on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

increase in the amount of curriculum per unit of time (learning intensity) at the end of higher secondary schooling on nine … does rather not depend on schooling investments in late adolescence. …