This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …