Training the East German Labour Force

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.

Auteur
Der Münchner Michael Lechner, geboren 1969, studierte nach seiner kaufmännischen Ausbildung Völkerkunde und Amerikanistik. Seit 1989 reist er regelmäßig nach Nord-, Mittel- und Südamerika, Australien und Indonesien. Seine Reiseschwerpunkte verlagerten sich in den letzten Jahren immer mehr in Richtung Kanada, Alaska, Skandinavien und den gesamten Alpenraum. Davon verbrachte er etwa 40 Wochen in den Atlantischen Provinzen Kanadas. Seine Faszination für die vielfältige und einzigartige Natur zwischen Sankt-Lorenz-Strom und Atlantik ist auch nach 15 Reisen in diese Region ungebrochen.

Contenu
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.