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Creating employment or keeping them busy: an evaluation of training programs for older workers in Germany
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Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen
Abstract
"We analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Our analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency and we estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training - c... view more
"We analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Our analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency and we estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training - classroom and in-firm training - on different outcomes of the participants. Our results show that classroom training is not effective in making participants independent of benefit receipt. It has a moderately positive effect on employment outcomes, which are highest for West German men. In contrast, in-firm training significantly raises the participants' likelihood of finding regular jobs and of being independent of unemployment benefit receipt." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
social security; sustainability; Federal Republic of Germany; labor force participation; labor market policy; welfare recipient; promotional program; unemployment; elderly worker
Classification
Labor Market Research
Labor Market Policy
Method
empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
22 p.
Series
DZA Diskussionspapiere, 49
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
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