This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training … efficiency losses of voucher award systems if individuals decide not to redeem, as employment chances are lower than under non …

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 training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

labour force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering …-time job compared to being on unemployment benefits. The effect of these financial dis-incentives is analysed in simple reduced … form models of on-thejob search, unemployed search behaviour, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labour force …

labour force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering …-time job compared to being on unemployment benefits. The effect of these financial dis-incentives is analysed in simple reduced … form models of on-the-job search, unemployed search behaviour, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labour force …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded … employment services. I also investigate the correlation of UI and employment services receipt with maintenance of self … employment services are used by one-quarter of newly jobless TANF leavers. Among UI applicants, more than 75 percent use public …

Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because … group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive …-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a …