The article analyses the returns to further training courses among a vulnerable group: the temporary employed. We address the important question of whether non-formal further training promotes the transition to permanent work and thus helps to escape precarious employment trajectories. According...

Since 2016 the Journal of Economics and Statistics publishes the Data Observer section with descriptions of data that can be used in empirical research in economics (and in the social sciences in general), This note gives a short overview of the contributions published in the first ten years.

Since 2016 the Journal of Economics and Statistics publishes the Data Observer section with descriptions of data that can be used in empirical research in economics (and in the social sciences in general), This note gives a short overview of the contributions published in the first ten years.

We study the labor market effects of tenure-dependent severance pay systems that tie firing costs to workers' accumulated earnings histories. We develop an overlapping-generations search-and-matching model in which firms face increasing separation costs over the employment relationship. Using...

Terrorism and organised violence are crucially reliant on adequate sources of funding. Blocking those sources has thus become a key goal of national security services in most countries through the world. This is the first book to provide an insider's account of how national security services...