" 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 …

Germany, 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 …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

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 …

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 …