Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; Paul, Marie; Strittmatter, Anthony
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany.
Quelle	Bonn (2014), 47 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 8454
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsgutschein; Erfolgskontrolle; Partizipation; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitsloser; Berufsbiografie; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Weiterbildung; Umschulung
Abstract	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. Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Evaluation; anwendungsorientiert; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2008.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/1