which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …

significant role. We find positive and significant effect of training programs on outflows from unemployment to employment, thus … unemployment – low labor demand environment and to evaluate the impact of active labor market policy programs on outflows from … unemployment. Results suggest that the hiring process is driven by a stock-flow rather than by a traditional matching function: the …

40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …

affecting UK labour market conditions. When the real exchange rate is undervalued, short-run unemployment falls as firms respond … to an improvement in domestic competitiveness by increasing their demand for labour. The unemployment response to the … reflects monetary policy considerations, our results imply that unemployment can be targeted by economic policy. Our results …

simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage … different effects in the two different situations. Interestingly, urban subsidy policies reduces urban unemployment in both of … the two cases, where as rural subsidy policy intensifies the problem of unemployment when urban informal sector is related …