This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …

Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of … unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years … probability of absence and the number of days on sick leave conditional on absence. The county unemployment rate is found to …

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In …