the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for … measures. Our main results show that training does have a significant short term effect of reducing unemploy-ment duration but …

In this study we are concerned with the impact of vocational training on the individual's unemployment duration in West … unemployment duration. Our results indicate, that training raises the transition rate of unemployed into employment in the short as …

-2004 period. It's main goal is to scrutinize the determinants of outflows from unemployment at the time when the two shocks have … transitions out of unemployment, including personal characteristics and unemployment benefits. Special attention is devoted to the …

relationship between unemployment and growth. We distinguish low-skilled and high-skilled labour and assume that a union bargains … over the low-skilled labour wage. This causes unemployment, but the growth e ect is ambiguous. On the one hand the higher …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …