This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via …

This study evaluates the effects of further training on the individual unemployment duration of different groups of … by comparing the unemployment duration between participants and non-participants using the Cox Proportional Hazard Model …. Overall, we find empirical evidence that participation in further training programmes results in even longer unemployment …

results suggest to declare the transition of labour markets as completed; unemployment responds to output and not to a …Does the disappointingly high unemployment in Central and East European countries reflect non-completed adjustment to … institutional shocks from transition to a market economy, or is it the result of high labour market rigidities, or rather a syndrome …