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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in spe­cific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exception­ally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we ex­ploit that German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390693
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267544
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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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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2006
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268090
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Which program for whom? Evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268320
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Déjà vu? Short-term training in Germany 1980 - 1992 and 2000 - 2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Orlyanskaya, Olga; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2008
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268750
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Do German welfare-to-work programmes reduce welfare and increase work?
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Walter, … - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269091
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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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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329212
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Wirkungen von Maßnahmen staatlicher Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik
Prey, Hedwig; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
Das immer drängender werdende Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland macht eine intensive Diskussion über Ursachen … Wirkungsanalyse von Maßnahmen der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik und diskutiert sowohl den makroökonomischen Zusammenhang zwischen AAMP … Gutachten unternommenen Wirkungsanalyse von Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen in Sachsen vorgestellt und der Entwicklung für …
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