, focussing on vacancy information obtained early in the unemployment spell. As in many other countries, the German activation … propensity score matching approach, we find that vacancy information increases the entry rate into unemployment predominantly by … through other channels. In case of continued unemployment, early vacancy information reduces the participation rate in ALMP …

Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges …, counseling, training, and placement services. Such programs can be expensive, however, which underscores the need to focus on …

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …