TY  - UNPD
A1  - Hujer, Reinhard
A1  - Maurer, Kai-Oliver
A1  - Wellner, Marc
T1  - Estimating the effect of training on unemployment duration in West Germany : a discrete hazard-rate model with instrumental variables
T2  - [Frankfurter volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge ; Arbeitspapier Nr. 73]
N2  - We estimate a semiparametric single-risk discrete-time duration model to assess the effect of vocational training on the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic-Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1986 to 1994. To take into account a possible selection bias actual participation in vocational training is instrumented using estimates of a randomeffects probit model for the participation in qualification measures. Our main results show that training does have a significant short term effect of reducing unemployment duration but that this effect does not persist in the long run. JEL classifications: C41, J20, J64
T3  - Frankfurter volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 73 
KW  - discrete hazard models
KW  - training
KW  - selection bias
KW  - instrumental variables
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3204
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-22042
ER  -