findings are: 1. Relief jobs reduce unemployment and increase production in the public sector. How-ever, higher wage and search … costs crowd out private sector employment and production. Overall production falls. 2. Training programs reduce unemployment … increase private sector employment and production. Unemployment falls by less than under the relief and training programs. …

findings are: 1. Relief jobs reduce unemployment and increase production in the public sector. How-ever, higher wage and search … costs crowd out private sector employment and production. Overall production falls. 2. Training programs reduce unemployment … increase private sector employment and production. Unemployment falls by less than under the relief …

In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

. The model also describes the propagation of shocks through different duration classes of unemployment and allows for … duration dependent exit probabilities from unemployment. Simulation experiments and a sensitivity analysis show that a shock …

structural chance, which leads to an outward shift of the UV-curve, may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment …

. The model also describes the propagation of shocks through different duration classes of unemployment and allows for … duration dependent exit probabilities from unemployment. Simulation experiments and a sensitivity analysis show that a shock …