Due to the financial crisis and the increase in the unemployment rate, active labour market policy (ALMP) inevitably … estimates the effect of the two largest programs of the ALMP, Training and Employment Incentives, on Employment Rate … of the Training program on the Employment Rate even in the time of crisis. In contrast, the Employment Incentives program …

We analyze the impact of the GermanWeGebAU programs, which are government-subsidized training measures for employed … workers over 45 years old. We apply a dynamic matching approach similar to Crépon et al. (2009) and exploit novel information … effects separately by gender, age, job status, and program duration. We find that WeGebAU training improves the probability of …

Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges …, counseling, training, and placement services. Such programs can be expensive, however, which underscores the need to focus on …

. Training unemployed workers in care occupations might mitigate this problem. This study analyzes the effectiveness of … subsidized training in elderly care professions for the unemployed in Germany over 12 years. We find that subsidized further … training and retraining in elderly care improves the employment chances of unemployed workers substantially in the long term …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …