Training the East German Labour Force : Microeconometric Evaluations of Continuous Vocational Training after Unification /
After unification the public and private sector spent large amounts of money to retrain the East Germany labour force in order to ease the transition to the new market economy. Using individual longitudinal and cross sectional data, this book proposes microeconometric methods to evaluate the impact...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica,
1998.
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| Series: | Studies in contemporary economics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.