"We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...

"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 long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...

"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 longrun differential employment effects of...

"In der Studie wird die Teilnehmerselektion in Maßnahmen der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung im Lichte der mit qualifizierenden Maßnahmen verfolgten Zielsetzungen analysiert. Dazu werden ausgehend von den Formulierungen des Gesetzes und mit Hilfe von theoretischen ökonomischen...