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What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Journal
Kyklos : international review for social sciences
ISSN
0023-5962
ISSN-Digital
467-6435
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2008-02-01
Author(s)
Wunsch, Conny
Lechner, Michael  
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00396.x
Abstract
We 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)
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Language
English
Keywords
Matching estimation
causal effects
programme
evaluation
panel data
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Helbing & Lichtenhahn
Publisher place
Basel
Volume
61
Number
1
Start page
134
End page
174
Pages
41
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/78716
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economics

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SEW - Swiss Institute...

Eprints ID
37084
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