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 …

Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training … selectivity correction by microeconometric matching methods. We identify the effects of different types of training programmes … substantive training programmes with duration of about two years gains in employment probabilities of more than 10% points appear …

We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For … outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment … prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are on average not helpful for their …

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 …

We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For … outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment … prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are on average not helpful for their …

We provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmes by evaluating training and …