Training the East German Labour Force
ISBN:
978-3-7908-1091-2
Auflage:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Verlag:
Physica
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.05.1998
Reihe:
Studies in Contemporary Economics
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
204
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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.
