: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …

und die Arbeitsmarktpolitik analytisch untersuch. Als besonders wichtig für den Propagationsmechanismus von …

demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases …

propensity matching methods. Overall we find that starting a subsidised job leads to significant employment and earning benefits …

We present and discuss the simple search and matching model of the labor market against the background of developments …

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …