" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the …

We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes … that training improves the employment opportunities of both men and women, whereas intervention and public works do not …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the … and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the … find stable employment. For the period of September 1992 to November 1994, when the institutional structure for the …

to find employment more easily than their peers who have been unemployed but have not been in a programme. Subjective …

outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects) are estimated. The variety of specifications presented is revealing …