End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

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IZA Seminar

Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn

Date: 20.03.2018, 12:15 - 13:30

   

Presentation by 

Bernd Fitzenberger (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
   

Abstract:

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the
unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany
in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous “end-of-year spending”. In addition
to estimating complier effects with 2SLS, we implement a flexible control-function
approach to obtain the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT). Our findings are:
Participants who are only selected for budgetary reasons do not benefit from training
programs. However, the ATT estimates suggest modest positive effects in the long run.
Longer programs are more effective than shorter and more practice-oriented programs.

   
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