This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

in France. We use a rich administrative register of unemployment and training spells as well as the information on local … labor demand that is used by unemployment agencies to allocate training programs. The results show that the average …