This paper uses a dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the employment effects of the use of … cannabis and cocaine. For females no negative effects of drug use on the employment rate are found. For males there is a … negative relationship between past cannabis and cocaine use and employment. However, this relationship has to do with …

heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …