TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lechner, Michael
AU  - Miquel, Ruth
AU  - Wunsch, Conny
        TI  - The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
        PY  - 2005/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1684
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1684
        AB  - 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 different types of programmes, and to observe interesting labour market outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are on average not helpful for their male participants. At least part of the explanation for this negative result is that caseworkers severely misjudged the structure of the future demand for skills.
        KW  - active labour market policy
KW  - nonparametric identification
KW  - matching estimation
KW  - causal effects
KW  - programme evaluation
KW  - panel data
KW  - gender differences
        ER  -