This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

to find employment more easily than their peers who have been unemployed but have not been in a programme. Subjective … phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition … Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 in combination with its Supplement on the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies …

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 …

, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have … non-participation for the West German labour market. The empirical analysis is based on waves 1 - 9 of the Socio …

between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data …-state or 'equilibrium' unemployment rates for various groups of the labour force. It is shown that these differ greatly between …The paper presents an empirical analysis of labour force dynamics in Poland in the period 1992 - 1993. Transitions …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …