both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … can be an effective tool to reduce unemployment in the long run, in particular if participation occurs early during … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled … unemployment, and then due to a sharp decline of skilled unemployment when skill substitution dominates. A higher elasticity of …-specific unemployment ; human capital investment ; idiosyncratic shock ; skill substitution ; search and matching …

One common feature of all empirical wage curve studies is the underlying assumption that the unemployment rate is the … unemployment. …