This paper is concerned with the effect of vocational training on individual unemployment duration in West Germany. The data base used in this study is the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1994. The econometric model is a semi-parametric single risk discrete time duration model. To take into account a possible selection bias, an instrumental variable ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
218 (1999), 5-6, 619-646
| Reinard Hujer, Kai-Oliver Maurer, Marc Wellner