In Austria job search programs were introduced on a large scale in 1999. These programs
aim at activating unemployed at an early stage and bringing them back to work by training job
search related skills. We evaluate the impact of active labour market programs in Austria on
individual unemployment durations, and allow program effects to vary between job search
programs and formal training programs. We use the timing-of-events method which estimates
the program effect as a shift in the transition rate from unemployment to jobs at the moment
of program entry. We find that participation in job search programs significantly reduces
unemployment durations, whereas formal training programs have a negative effect on
unemployment durations.
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