This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative …

unemployment or employment stability. Employment rates up to three years after eligibility show no significant improvement. In … disadvantaged groups. We empirically evaluate an employer-side wage subsidy scheme targeted at the long-term unemployed in Germany …-term unemployment, Regression discontinuity. …

that short-term training programmes on average increase their participants' employment perspectives and that all programmes …

evaluation. We find that short-term training programmes on average increase their participants' employment perspectives and that …