Training the East German labour force : microeconometric evaluations of continuous vocational training after unification
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Training the East German labour force : microeconometric evaluations of continuous vocational training after unification
(Studies in contemporary economics)
Physica-Verlag, 1998
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
After unification large amounts of money were spent to retrain the East Germany labour force in order to ease the transition to the new market economy. This book uses microeconometric methods and individual data to evaluate the impact of these training programmes on the participants' labour market situation. It discusses the appropriate evaluation methodology as well as the effectiveness of the actual programmes for the individual participants. The empirical results suggest that the public sector sponsored training programmes were fairly ineffective. In contrast, the training organized and paid by the enterprises caused considerable earnings growings.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: About the Topic
- Labour Markets in East Germany after Unification
- Contents and Summary of the Results
- Causality and the Identification Problem in Evaluation.- Estimates of the Effects of Training: Public-Sector Sponsored Training
- Enterprise-Related Training.- Bounds for the Effects of Training: Introduction
- Identification of the Causal Effects of Training
- Data
- Estimation of the Bounds on the Causal Effects of Training
- Results
- Conclusion and Outlook.- Conclusions and Outlook.- References.
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