Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and … estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity …

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple treatment approach using matching based on inflows into unemployment. We find … positive medium-and long-run employment effects for the largest program, Provision of Specific Professional Skills and … Techniques. In contrast, the programs practice firms and retraining show no consistent positive employment effects. Furthermore …

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in …