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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …