TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lechner, Michael
AU  - Miquel, Ruth
AU  - Wunsch, Conny
        TI  - Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
        PY  - 2004/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1443
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1443
        AB  - Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching methods. We identify the effects of different types of training programmes over a horizon of more than seven years. Using bias corrected weighted multiple neighbours matching we find that all programmes have negative effects in the short run and positive effects over a horizon of about four years. However, for substantive training programmes with duration of about two years gains in employment probabilities of more than 10% points appear to be sustainable, but come at the price of large negative lock-in effects.
        KW  - panel data
KW  - matching estimation
KW  - active labour market policy
KW  - programme evaluation
        ER  -