Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programmes: The East German Experience
Journal
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
ISSN
0021-4027
Type
journal article
Date Issued
1999
Author(s)
Abstract
not available in German We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for unobserved individual heterogeneity in both the training participation and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the completion of a training program. Our findings are that in the first phase of the east German transition process, when the institutions delivering the training programs were being set up, there are no positive effects of training on the probability to find stable employment. For the period of September 1992 to November 1994, when the institutional structure for the programs was in place, we find positive effects of both on-the-job and off-the-job training for women, and positive effects of off-the-job training for men.
Language
English
Keywords
active labour market policy
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Fischer G.
Publisher place
Stuttgart
Number
219
Start page
216
End page
248
Pages
33
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
15301