certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in … effects of the treatment at a certain elapsed duration compared to "no treatment at any subsequent duration". We prove …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies …

are limited and starting an own business is an opportunity to leave unemployment. However, the survival of firms in … well as a control group of unemployed who did not enter these programs. We add information on unemployment rates and GDP …

. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor … start-ups out of unemployment with regular business founders, with respect to not only personal characteristics but also …

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …