Creating employment or keeping them busy: an evaluation of training programs for older workers in Germany

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

"We analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Our analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency and we estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training - classroom and in-firm training - on different outcomes of the participants. Our results show that classroom training is not effective in making participants independent of benefit receipt. It has a moderately positive effect on employment outcomes, which are highest for West German men. In contrast, in-firm training significantly raises the participants' likelihood of finding regular jobs and of being independent of unemployment benefit receipt." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 22
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: DZA Diskussionspapiere (49)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft ; Arbeitsmarktforschung ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Erwerbsbeteiligung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Sozialhilfeempfänger ; soziale Sicherung ; älterer Arbeitnehmer ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Förderungsprogramm ; empirisch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Romeu Gordo, Laura ; Wolff, Joachim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen
• (where): Deutschland, Berlin
• (when): 2010

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-308287
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:28 PM CEST