The effects of short-term training measures on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany

authored by

Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L Thomsen, Christopher Zeiss

Abstract

Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market policy in terms of persons promoted. However, evidence on the impacts of programs is missing. This study analyzes the effects of these programs on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and unobservable factors to control for selectivity. Moreover, we allow treatment effects to vary over time and take account of heterogeneity in the effects due to individual differences.

External Organisation(s)

Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Type

Other publication

Publication date

11.09.2006

Publication status

Published

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Electronic version(s)

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-14492 (Access: Open)