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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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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