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 …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

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 …

. Training unemployed workers in care occupations might mitigate this problem. This study analyzes the effectiveness of … subsidized training in elderly care professions for the unemployed in Germany over 12 years. We find that subsidized further … training and retraining in elderly care improves the employment chances of unemployed workers substantially in the long term …

the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills … undertake job training and job search assistance policies. The authors use their experience with policy implementation, and …

The evaluation of training programs especially of active labour market programs has attracted a lot of attention the … last couple of years. In particular, analyses of on-the-job training have come up with encouraging results regarding job … on-the-job-training on the labour market outcome of elder employees by estimating its effect on the age structure of the …