This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …

her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …

Arbeitslosigkeit Schwerbehinderter als natürliches Experiment und schätzen die Änderung in der Wahrscheinlichkeit einer … in the Gesetz zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit Schwerbehinderter, as a natural experiment and measure the change in …

clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time. …

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 …