The Netherlands have experienced an employment miracle since the 1980s. This note investigates what happened to the … wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates … moderation on average. Although there have also been virtually no changes in the unemployment structure, the relative non-employment …

We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes … that training improves the employment opportunities of both men and women, whereas intervention and public works do not …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects) are estimated. The variety of specifications presented is revealing … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects) are estimated. The variety of specifications presented is revealing … some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects) are estimated. The variety of specifications presented is revealing … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …