The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy
Subtitle: the case of East Germany after unification
By: by Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch.
Contributors: Miquel, Ruth.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1684; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1684
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Unemployed -- Training of -- Germany (East); Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1990-
Description: "We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study different types of programmes, and to observe interesting labour market outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are on average not helpful for their male participants. At least part of the explanation for this negative result is that caseworkers severely misjudged the structure of the future demand for skills"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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