empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the … most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …

job. This Paper uses an administrative data set from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and … continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the …-term unemployed to leave unemployment. The imposed training programs make their human capital converge to a unique, positive level …

the observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training … Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white …, followed by a gradual movement to white-collar occupations. The estimated rates of return to local training, local experience …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labour market, and smaller training …

the programme) comes mainly from the impact of training on the job offer probabilities and, consequently, on unemployment …Do government provided training programmes benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of …