Gemessen an der Zahl der Teilnehmer haben sich kurzzeittige Trainingsmaßnahmen zum wichtigsten Instrument aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik entwickelt. Über die Effizienz unterschiedlicher Formen von Trainingsmaßnahmen und über ihre langfristigen Auswirkungen ist jedoch wenig bekannt. In dem...

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...

We analyze the effectiveness of further training for unemployed under two different regulatory regimes, which are featured by different assignment mechanisms and selection criteria. The first regime is characterized by a strong influence of caseworkers, because they can assign unemployed to...