combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

. 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. …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … explanatory power of macroeconomic models explaining unemployment. The approach permits to tackle model specification problems … institutional changes are calculated and their economic significance is analyzed for selected countries. -- Unemployment …