We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active labour market programme (ALMP) participation between January...

Digitalisation, automation and future technological changes are changing the world of work, affecting the skills needed to perform them. The future of jobs will not look like the present situation: increasingly, workers will have to adapt to fast technological change, accept more mobility during...

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...

Vor dem Hintergrund hoher und persistenter Arbeitslosigkeit wird die Idee staatlich finanzierter Arbeitsplätze sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch vermehrt diskutiert (Atkinson 2015; Tcherneva 2018; Palley 2018; Picek 2019). Häufig wird kritisch auf die hohen fiskalischen Kosten solcher Programme...