Retraining the labor force to match the demands of a modern economy is an important task during the transition process from a centrally planned to a market economy. This need is particular pressing in East Germany, because the transition process is much faster there than in the rest of Eastern...

Durch die Einführung des Systems des so genannten „Bildungsgutscheins“ hat sich die Leistungserbringung der budgetmäßig wichtigsten Maßnahme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik seit dem 1. Januar 2003 grundlegend verändert. Wie ist das neue Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik ausgestaltet...

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the longrun differential employment effects of...