Some Econometric Evidence on the Effectiveness of Active Labour Market Programmes in East Germany

Martin Eichler and Michael Lechner

No 318, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: In this paper we summarise our previous results on the effectiveness of different kinds of labour market training programmes as well as employment programmes in East Germany after unification. All the studies use the microeconometric evaluation approach and are based on different types of matching estimators. We find some positive earnings effect for on-the-job training and also some positive employment effects for employment programmes. No such effects appear for public sector sponsored (off-the-job) training programmes. Generally, the scope of such analysis is very much hampered by the insufficient quality and quantity of the data available for East Germany. Although in particular the results for public sector sponsored training programmes raise serious doubts about the effectiveness of these programmes, any definite policy conclusion from this and other studies about active labour market policy in East Germany would probably be premature.

Keywords: East German labor markets; treatment effects; training; panel data; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2000-06-01
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