Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The …

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany … apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …