and provide some remarks for future research. -- Economic integration ; regional growth ; EU Cohesion Policy ; panel data …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

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 … quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …

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 …

transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple treatment approach using matching based on inflows into unemployment. We find …

From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment … compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …

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 …

In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …