We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by … clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time. …

This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

that short-term training programmes on average increase their participants' employment perspectives and that all programmes …