This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of
unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the
Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences
we apply a multivariate mixed proportional hazard model. Furthermore, particular interest is
spent on possible locking-in effects by separate estimation of in- and after-programme
effects. Regarding several different programme durations our results show insignificant in-
and after-programme effects for short-term programmes, insignificant in-programme and
negative after-programme effects for mid-term programmes and negative in- and afterprogramme
effects for long-term programmes.
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