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The effectiveness of public sponsored training revisited: the importance of data and methodological choices

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie (2012). The effectiveness of public sponsored training revisited: the importance of data and methodological choices. Working paper series / Department of Economics 91, University of Zurich.

Abstract

As the first, substantive contribution, this paper revisits the effectiveness of two widely used public sponsored training programs, the first one focusing on intensive occupational training and the second one on short-term activation and job entry. We use an exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to estimate their employment and earnings effects in the early 2000s. We employ a stratified propensity score matching approach to address dynamic selection into heterogeneous programs. As a second, methodological contribution, we carefully assess to what extent various aspects of our empirical strategy such as conditioning flexibly on employment and benefit histories, the availability of rich personal information, handling of later program participations, and further methodological and specification choices affect estimation results. Our results imply pronounced negative lock-in effects in the short run in general and positive medium-run effects on employment and earnings when job-seekers enroll after having been unemployed for some time. We find that data and specification issues can have a large effect on impact estimates.

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Item Type:Working Paper
Communities & Collections:03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Economics
Working Paper Series > Department of Economics
Dewey Decimal Classification:330 Economics
JEL Classification:C14, J68, H43
Uncontrolled Keywords:Public sponsored training, dynamic treatment effects, multiple treatments, kernel matching, administrative data, berufliche Integration, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Eingliederungshilfe, Arbeitsloser, Beschäftigungswirkung, berufliche Wiedereingliederung
Scope:Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)
Language:English
Date:September 2012
Deposited On:19 Sep 2012 09:44
Last Modified:15 Mar 2024 11:38
Series Name:Working paper series / Department of Economics
Number of Pages:78
ISSN:1664-7041
OA Status:Green
Related URLs:https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/workingpapers.html
Other Identification Number:merlin-id:7254

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