This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor …

This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training courses and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, we analyze the effectiveness of training on the employment …

programmes - training, subsidised employment and public works. -- active labour market programmes ; training programmes …

problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable effects of participation in training programmes, which is not true for … positive effects compared to shorter training at the end of the observation period. Fourth, participants in job creation … schemes are too different from participants in training programmes to conduct a reliable comparison. -- Evaluation of active …

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and … estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …