This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on … employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an …-treatment labor market status. Our findings suggest that Training raises employment probability, while Intervention Works seems to …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … swings of the business cycle. This paper analyzes these labor force status dynamics for the East and West German labor market …

We quantify micro and macro effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance. In … Poland, the PBD is 12 months for the newly unemployed if the previous year's county unemployment rate is more than 150% of …, benefit recipients younger than 50, a PBD increase from 6 to 12 months leads to 13 percent higher unemployment (the micro …