This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the apprenticeship system in a country, which provides large-scale employer-provided training for new entrants on the labour market. The overview includes institutional traits of the Danish labour market which help sustain the system by...

The two main competing theories for the outward shift in the uv-curve are investigated: increased separations from employment at a given employment level (reallocation) and decreased levels of hires, given unemployment and vacancies (mismatch). Shifts in the unemployment-vacancy (uv)-curve and...

The two main competing theories for the outward shift in the uv-curve are investigated: Increased separations from employment at a given employment level (reallocation) and decreased levels of hires, given unemployment and vacancies (mismatch). Shifts in the uv-curve and the hiring function are...

Two key relations in theoretical work on labor market flows are analyzed; the hiring function and the uv-curve. The relations are identified in a cointegrated VAR-model framework. The system comprising unemployment, vacancies and hirings is driven by a stochastic trend in the vacancies,...

This paper analyzes a labor market program which enables workers to leave employment temporarily with a compensation financed by the taxpayers. The main aim of the program was to increase the chances of the unemployed finding a job. However, the empirical analysis reveals a clear negative...

We compare the wage and employment consequences of a job displacement in Belgium and Denmark. These two countries both have generous unemployment insurance schemes but job protection laws vary dramatically between the two. Using comparable data we find that the incidence of displacement and the...

Den kommende gymnasiereform må forventes at reducere studenterne muligheder for at bestå en videregående uddannelse med teknisk indhold. Det er uheldigt, idet befolkningens uddannelsesniveau er af væsentlig betydning for nationalproduktets størrelse og den økonomiske vækst. I dette...