affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …

-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI inflows at the age that allows workers to claim their pension following … UI expiration. We then estimate a dynamic life-cycle model and use it to directly quantify how the effects of UI vary …

The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and … activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … has been a common issue in labour market reforms. The paper shows the development of activation policies in terms of basic …

come from reducing the duration of training programs, which has decreased the lock-in effect without affecting the program …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …