unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved … agency explains substantial part of the observed post-reform unemployment decline: 34%. If disincentive effects of the agency … discussed unemployment benefits. …

, more of the young people were encouraged to take part in training and further education instead of being quickly placed in … significant effect on the overall extent of integration into employment. Regarding post-unemployment job quality, we find no …

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via … differences in training quality and in the availability of internal labor markets, and that the access to large training firms …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …