Michael Lechner
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Prof. Dr.
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Lechner
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Michael
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michael.lechner@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 28 14
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Item type:Publication, Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?Type:journal articleJournal:German Economic ReviewVolume:12Issue:2Scopus© Citations 33 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activitiesThis microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective well-being. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.05.003)Type:journal articleJournal:The Journal of Health EconomicsVolume:28Issue:4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market ProgrammesWe provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmes by evaluating training and employment programmes that have been conducted 2000-2002 after the first large reform of German labour market policy in 1998. We employ exceptionally rich administrative data that allow us to use microeconometric matching methods and to estimate interesting effects for different types of programmes and participants at a rather disaggregated level. We find that, on average, all programmes fail to improve their participants' chances of finding regular, unsubsidised employment. Rather, participants accumulate 2-13 more months of unemployment than nonparticipants over the 2.5 years following programme start, which, in addition to direct programme costs, induces net costs in terms of benefit payments and wage subsidies amounting to, on average, 1500-7000 EUR per participant. However, we show that there is some scope for improvements in mean employment rates as well as potential for considerable cost savings by a reallocation of participants and nonparticipants to the different programmes. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00396.x) Download Internet Appendix: (pdf, 727 kb)Type:journal articleJournal:Kyklos : international review for social sciencesVolume:61Issue:1Scopus© Citations 63 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-job Training in East Germany after UnificationNot available in German. Retraining the labor force to match the demands of a modern economy is an important task during the transition process from a centrally planned to a market economy. This need is particular pressing in East Germany, because the transition process is much faster there than in the rest of Eastern Europe. Therefore, substantial resources are devoted to this purpose. This paper analyses the impact of continuous off-the-job training in East Germany from the point of view of the individuals who were in the labor force before German unification in 1990. It answers questions about the average gains from participating in a specific type of training. Typical outcomes considered to measure these gains are income, employment status, job security and expected career prospects. The methodology used for the empirical evaluation is the potential outcome approach to causality. This approach has received considerable attention in the statistical literature over the last 15 years and it has been recently rediscovered by the econometric literature as well. Here, it is adapted to allow for important permanent and transitory shocks that influence the decision to participate in the training as well as future labor market outcomes. The empirical results are based on the first five waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)-East (1990-1994). This panel data set has the advantage that the fourth wave contains a special survey on continuous training and that it allows to keep track of individual behaviour on a monthly, respectively yearly, basis. The econometric analysis focuses on off-the-job training courses that began after unification. Although it is obviously too early to evaluate the long-run implications, the results suggest that at least in the short-run there are no positive effects.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Business & Economic StatisticsVolume:17Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Matching Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Models : Some Practical Issues(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008);