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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299574
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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620003
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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615604
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Poland on the dole: The effect of reducing the unemployment benefit entitlement period during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 1, pp. 35-44
find that the regime change did not have a significant effect on the duration of unemployment. The results thus give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760425
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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297569
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Do public works programs work? Some unpleasant results from the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1998
We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual?level panel data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297575
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Advantage through training? A microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1998
, we use traditional econometric modelling in the form of duration models with unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297590
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298120
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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition
Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299659
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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441000