Estimating the effect of training on unemployment duration in West Germany : a discrete hazard-rate model with instrumental variables
- 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
Author: | Reinhard HujerGND, Kai-Oliver Maurer, Marc Wellner |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-22042 |
Parent Title (German): | [Frankfurter volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge ; Arbeitspapier Nr. 73] |
Series (Serial Number): | Frankfurter volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge (73) |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2005/11/22 |
Year of first Publication: | 1997 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2005/11/22 |
Tag: | discrete hazard models; instrumental variables; selection bias; training |
Source: | Frankfurter volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge ; 73. - http://much-magic.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/Professoren/hujer/research.htm |
HeBIS-PPN: | 190646268 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Licence (German): | ![]() |