The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony

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Fertig, Michael

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Abstract	This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of employment protection. To this end, a control function approach is implemented which utilizes a unique firm-level dataset. This model explicitly accounts for unobserved heterogeneity between participating and non-participating companies by modeling the participation decision process. Our results suggest a positive effect of program participation. However, this positive treatment effect varies considerably across different sub-groups of the treatment as well as the comparison group.
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2007
Seitenangabe	S. 2279-2301
Zeitschriftentitel	Applied Economics, 39 (2007) 18
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840600707233
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)