employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established … different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are …

clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time. …

chances in the short and medium term. -- Public employment services ; unemployment ; statistical matching methods …In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring … caseworkers' cooperativeness on the employment probabilities of their clients. Modified statistical matching methods reveal that …

This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training … efficiency losses of voucher award systems if individuals decide not to redeem, as employment chances are lower than under non …

outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment …

We investigate heterogenous employment effects of Flemish training programmes. Based on administrative individual data …

dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching … methods, are confirmed by several robustness checks. -- Social identity ; social interactions ; public employment services …