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[Multilevel analyses of labour market and return to work after vocational retraining]
1Institut für Qualitätssicherung in Prävention und Rehabilitation GmbH an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln (iqpr).
Aim:
is to test individual level and regional labour market hypotheses about return to work (RTW) after vocational retraining derived from matching theory.
Methods:
In multilevel analyses individual data of graduates in 2006 (n=3620) by the association of German "Berufsförderungswerke" and for contextual level the regional unemployment rates in 2007 (n=159 Federal Employment Agency of Germany districts) are used.
Results:
Probability of RTW rises with decreasing regional unemployment. There's an age effect only in context of high unemployment. In context of low unemployment partnership promotes RTW - but in context of high unemployment only for men and not for women. It's compatible with matching theory because family obligations lead to high individual reservation wages and entry wages are to low.
Conclusions:
Direct and indirect effects of labour market should be taken into account in research on effectiveness and in comparative evaluation on intervention quality.
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