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...

The focus is on theoretical and empirical questions of openness and economic development. The book deals with real and monetary aspects of the policy of economic openness. Authors from different universities and well-known institutions illustrate a variety of different topics of the world-wide...