We estimate the short-, medium-, and long-term effects of different types of government-sponsored training in West Germany using particularly rich data that allows us to control for selectivity by matching methods and to measure interesting outcome variables over eight years after a program's start. We use distance-weighted radius matching together with a bias removal procedure based on weighted regressions in order to increase the precision and robustness of standard matching estimators. We find negative employment effects in the short term for all program types, effects whose magnitude and persistence is directly related to program duration. In the longer term, training seems to increase employment rates by 10 - 20 percentage points. For most programs the longer-term positive effects seem to be sustainable over the eight-year observation period. Url or DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01029.x Authors Conny Wunsch Ruth Miquel Michael Lechner Country Germany Publication Year 2011 Ranges Intervention Intervention Start Year 1993 Intervention End Year 1994 Evaluation Evaluation Start Year 1993 Evaluation End Year 2000 Policy field Training Classroom/vocational training On-the-job training Target group Labour market status Unemployed (All cat.) Details Funding Source Other Outcome Variable Employment status Income/wages Data Source Administrative Evaluation Method PSM
