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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...
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Get training or wait? Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Völter, Robert - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268016
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Early child care and child development: For whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302582
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Early child care and child development: For whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291363
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Does supporting passenger railways reduce road traffic externalities?
Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013
Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to...
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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417199
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665400
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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences
Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - In: Journal of applied econometrics 24 (2009) 5, pp. 797-823
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932103
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Assessing the impact of training on employment : the case of East Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Prey, Hedwig - 1995
This paper is concerned with the effects of training on the future employment probability of trainees. During the transformation process of the East German economy after reunification, employment decreased by a large amount. Therefore, many workers in East Germany participated in training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009542180