Training the East German Labour Force: Microeconometric Evaluations of continuous Vocational Training after Unification

by Michael Lechner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783790810912
Publisher:	Physica-Verlag HD
Publication date:	05/05/1998
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Economics
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

I Introduction.- I.1 About the Topic.- I.2 Labour Markets in East Germany After Unification.- I.3 Contents and Summary of the Results.- I.4 Causality and the Identification Problem in Evaluation Studies.- II Estimates of the Effects of Training.- II.1 Public-Sector-Sponsored Training.- II.2 Enterprise-Related Training.- Appendix II.A: Data.- Appendix II.B: Econometrics.- Appendix II.C: Specification Tests for the Partial Propensity Score.- Appendix II.D: Additional Evaluation Results.- III Bounds for the Effects of Training.- III.1 Introduction.- III.2 Identification of the Causal Effects of Training.- III.3 Data.- III.4 Estimation of the Bounds on the Causal Effects of Training.- III.5 Results.- III.6 Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix III.A: Econometrics.- Appendix III.B: Results for Off-The-Job Training Versus No Training.- Appendix III.C: Results for On-The-Job Training Versus Off-The-Job Training.- Appendix III.D: Additional Results for On-The-Job-Training Versus No Training (Women Only).- IV Conclusions and Outlook.- V References.