Vocational training for female job returners: Effects on employment, earnings and job quality

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This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor market outcomes. The results suggest that receiving a training voucher translates into substantial gains in employment and earnings and increases job quality and stability. Analyzing the heterogeneity effects reveals that the effectiveness of training increases with the provided human capital. Several robustness checks support a causal interpretation of the results.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WWZ Working Paper ; No. 2022/02

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
• Subject: Job Return ; Active Labor Market Policies ; Treatment Effects ; Program Evaluation ; Training Voucher ; Return to work

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Doerr, Annabelle
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5451/unibas-ep86520
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/261067
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET