This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …

; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …