Vor dem Hintergrund der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Ostdeutschland nach der Wiedervereinigung wird die Wirksamkeit staatlich geförderter Fortbildungs- und Umschulungsmaßnahmen für Arbeitslose analysiert. Hierzu werden prozessproduzierte Daten aus drei Quellen herangezogen, um durch...

Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching...

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...