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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405990
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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571449
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Short-term training programs for immigrants : do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native … differences related to an immigrant fixed effect in a second step. -- Immigrants ; short-term training programs ; evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003954181
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338016
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Typs von Weiterbildung, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Dauer der Maßnahme. Die Dauer der Maßnahme ist eine wesentliche …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665400
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Deja vu? : short-term training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Orlyanskaya, Olga; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2008
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their longrun effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721828
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Long-run effects of training programs for the unemployed in East Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2007
Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435427
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Continuing vocational training in Germany : a comparative study using 3 German data set
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006
Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training. This makes comparison of econometric analyses of the impact of training on labour market outcomes di±cult. Three large German data sets are used here to bring to light the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314706
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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants : merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961542