high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … explanatory power of macroeconomic models explaining unemployment. The approach permits to tackle model specification problems … institutional changes are calculated and their economic significance is analyzed for selected countries. -- Unemployment …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta …

individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …. Applying propensity score matching in a dynamic setting where the time until treatment in the unemployment spell is stratified … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and … estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity …

transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple treatment approach using matching based on inflows into unemployment. We find … positive medium-and long-run employment effects for the largest program, Provision of Specific Professional Skills and … Techniques. In contrast, the programs practice firms and retraining show no consistent positive employment effects. Furthermore …

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and … estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity …