effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … 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 …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, (ii) reduces future unemployment, (iii) slightly increases cumulated future earnings, on average, and (iv) is associated … with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

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 …

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

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …