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 …

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 …

This paper explores the connection between unemployment and subjective well-being in Finland by using cross …-sections for the years 1990, 1996 and 2000 from World Values Surveys. An unprecedented increase in the national unemployment rate … (from 3 to 17 per cent) did not produce a drop in the mean level of subjective well-being. Experiencing unemployment …