, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have … dependence' arising from causal factors and 'sorting' effects due to unobserved heterogeneity in the unemployment pool. I also …

effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the … and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the … find stable employment. For the period of September 1992 to November 1994, when the institutional structure for the …

" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the … labor market and that participants are, on average, worse off concerning their re?employment prospects in regular jobs than …

effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the … and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the … find stable employment. For the period of September 1992 to November 1994, when the institutional structure for the …

" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the … labor market and that participants are, on average, worse off concerning their re?employment prospects in regular jobs than …

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

for state dependence effects in male unemployment behaviour. Estimation of the model is based on the marginal likelihood … approach. In the model an individual's unemployment probability at a given point in time within the period 1985 - 1989 depends … on his labour force status in the previous period and on the cumulated duration of past unemployment. Controlling for …

to find employment more easily than their peers who have been unemployed but have not been in a programme. Subjective …

to find employment more easily than their peers who have been unemployed but have not been in a programme. Subjective …