Arbeitspapier

Should the unemployed care for the elderly? The effect of subsidized occupational and further training in elderly care

Demographic change implies an increasing demand for elderly care and a lower labor force potential at the same time. Training unemployed workers in care occupations might mitigate this problem. This study analyzes the effectiveness of subsidized training in elderly care professions for the unemployed in Germany over 12 years. We find that subsidized further training and retraining in elderly care improves the employment chances of unemployed workers substantially in the long term. Moreover, a high share of these re-employed workers remain in the care sector. A high percentage of parttime work and conditional wage gains for only certain retraining participants indicate shortcomings in the quality of employment. However, subsidized training seems to be an adequate measure to re-employ unemployed workers in the elderly care sector and to narrow the gap between demand and supply in elderly care.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 13/2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Thema
Training
elderly care
program evaluation
dynamic treatment effects
active labor market policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dauth, Christine Martina
Lang, Julia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2017

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dauth, Christine Martina
  • Lang, Julia
  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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