Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...

Über die Wirkung der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Ostdeutschland sind in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche empirische Studien durchgeführt worden, die auf den methodischen Fortschritten der Evaluationsforschung aufbauen. Dieser Beitrag stellt die empirische Evidenz im Kontext der...