In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily … lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important … become self-employed. In the second part of the paper we study the economic outcome of self-employment in 2002 for Swedish …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures …

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …

unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … unemployment. There was a big fall in employment in the (especially) construction and manufacturing industries. The financial …This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It …

employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training …, as workers may not find their stable, target employment immediately. Government may also want to find ways to improve …

difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible …