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’Zero is not a bad number’ was the reply of James Heckman from the University of Chicago when asked about how much a large US training programme - the Job Partnership Act - has helped its participants. Zero is not a bad number’ is also the answer of this work when considering the employment and earnings effects for the participants of the large subsidized training programmes conducted in East Germany after unification. Even for enterprise-related training there appears to be no reduction of the threat of unemployment, but at least there is some indication that participation in such training increases earnings.
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Lechner, M. (1998). Conclusions and Outlook. In: Training the East German Labour Force. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59009-2_4
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