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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2006

come from reducing the duration of training programs, which has decreased the lock-in effect without affecting the program …

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Vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs: evidence from the Hartz reform in Germany

Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - 2008

This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective...

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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Swedish youth labour market policies revisited

Forslund, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

The paper studies the efficiency of Swedish labour market policies for young workers. Using age discontinuities which define which policy regime an individual is covered by we present quasi-experimental evidence on the relative efficiency of different policy regimes currently in use. Results...

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Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?

Carling, Kenneth; Larsson, Laura - 2002

This paper evaluates a measure targeted at unemployed individuals aged 20-24. The main purpose of the measure is to prevent long-term unemployment by guaranteeing an assignment to some labor market program within 100 days of unemployment. Municipalities voluntarily agree to offer the guarantee....

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Self-employment grants vs. subsidized employment: Is there a difference in the re-unemployment risk?

Carling, Kenneth; Gustafson, Lena - 1999

change by comparing the post-program duration of employment for the two programs. In addition, we focus in some detail on the … problem. We discuss how the selection process may bias the effect estimate in the non-linear duration model that we use …

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The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990's

Carling, Kenneth; Richardson, Katarina - 2001

duration for participants. The analysis uses a hazard regression model and a uniquely large and rich administrative data set …

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The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work

Richardson, Katarina; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2002

training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual … mean unemployment duration is close to zero. …

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Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...

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