In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed … workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential … endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the lower and upper part of the treatment duration distribution. -- treatment …

the low-cost short-term training schemes are cost efficient in the short run. -- training ; program evaluation ; duration …

unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- Happiness ; unemployment duration …