Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will …

her first six months in unemployment - enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data origi-nating from administrative unemployment …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

shocks and selection, I find that the exit hazard rates into and out of unemployment increased after the reform by over 1 … implies a net decrease in unemployment of a third of a percentage point, which accounts for about one quarter of the fall in … unemployment during the period of study …