title: Creating employment or keeping them busy? An evaluation of training programs for older workers in Germany.
abstract: The authors analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Their analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency, and they estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training--classroom and in-firm training--on different outcomes of the participants. 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.
authors.affiliation: DZA, German Center of Gerontology, Berlin, Germany. laura.romeu-gordo@dza.de
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Romeu Gordo
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wolff
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors