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): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
