Make further vocational training pay: Possibilities and limits of promoting transitions by Public Employment Services (PES)

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The current low participation rate of low-skilled workers in vocational re-training ac-tivities as well as the relatively high share of youth without vocational qualification are major challenges for German labour market policies. Recently implemented pro-grams by the Federal Employment Service (BA) to improve the management of school-to-work transitions as well as re-training activities of already employed work-ers are analyzed in the framework of Transitional Labour Markets (TLM). The TLM approach provides a series of proposals to manage social risks deriving from the need of making transitions during the life course. Preliminary evaluation results of early intervention and BA re-training programs are promising so far. However, ex-tending the existing programs or even institutionalizing life-long learning as a social right by converting contribution based unemployment insurance into employment insurance's a prominent TLM recommendation - would require high financial re-sources and possibly undermine individual as well as corporate responsibility.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 18/2010

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
• Subject: Transitional Labour Markets ; Active Labour Market Policy ; Further Vocational Training ; Public Employment Services (PES) ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Berufseinstieg ; Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte ; Berufliche Integration ; Übergangsarbeitsmarkt ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Konle-Seidl, Regina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57435