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This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programs 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-program effects. Regarding several different program durations, our results show insignificant in- and after-program effects for short-term programs, insignificant in-program and negative after-program effects for mid-term programs and negative in- and after-program effects for long-term programs.