TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doerr, Annabelle
AU  - Fitzenberger, Bernd
AU  - Kruppe, Thomas
AU  - Paul, Marie Elina
AU  - Strittmatter, Anthony
        TI  - Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8454
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8454
        AB  - In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability weighting and ordinary least squares estimates of the employment and earnings effects of a voucher award. Our results imply that after the award, voucher recipients experience long periods of lower labor market success. On average, there are only small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings even four years after the voucher award. However, we do find significantly positive effects both for low-skilled individuals and for degree courses. The strong positive selection effects implied by our estimates are consistent with sizeable cream-skimming effects.
        KW  - active labor market policies
KW  - training vouchers
KW  - treatment effects evaluation
KW  - administrative data
        ER  -