We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

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 present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland. Die Analyse erfolgt im Lichte des sektoralen Wandel, der Verschiebung der … Arbeitsmarktpolitik aus Effizienz- und Verteiliungsgesichtspunkten rechtfertigen lässt und in welcher Form FbW sinnvoll sein kann. …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

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 …

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 …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …