Short-term Training Programs for Immigrants: Do Effects Differ from Natives and Why?

Konferenzbeitrag

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and differences related to an immigrant fixed effect in a second step.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Empirical Studies of Training and Education ; No. D10-V1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: Immigrants ; short-term training programs ; evaluation ; decomposition ; matching ; Germany

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Thomsen, Stephan L. ; Aldashev, Alisher ; Walter, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37454
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