that rising rates of unequal transfer are causing rising rates of unemployment. Our approximate, admittedly crude measure … in unemployment over the last 2 decades since 1980, observable from the ILO Laborsta data set. A non-linear function … explains 16 % of the rise in unemployment (time series correlations, ILO Laborsta data series). So, while the Muslim world can …

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 …