The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and … activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … has been a common issue in labour market reforms. The paper shows the development of activation policies in terms of basic …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We … claimants have the opportunity to withdraw from the UI scheme, their long-run utility can even be lower than in the absence of …