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 …

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of … workers by proposing them retraining and job seeking assistance for a period of six months beginning just after the dismissal …

A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long … analytical skills. Two other key components perhaps helping account for the retraining success were assessment and auditing …

inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …

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