%0 Report
        %A Lechner, Michael
%A Miquel, Ruth
%A Wunsch, Conny
        %T Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1443
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1443
        %X 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.
        %K panel data
%K matching estimation
%K active labour market policy
%K programme evaluation