This paper deals with the analysis of the determinants of unemployment for the Central-Eastern and South-Eastern (CSEE) European countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. The comprehensive analysis for the observed period from 2012 to 2020 provides...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

The third chapter estimates negative average effects of a Swiss job search programme for unemployed persons. Those who are send to the job search programme are significantly less likely to find a job quickly than comparable unemployed persons who do not participate in such a programme. Recent...