Marginalisation Processes in the Danish Labour Market

In the Ph.D Thesis, the author examines whether there is a tendency that unemployed individuals choose to leave the unemployment insurance system when they are faced with the threat of active labour market policy.
The results presented in the thesis do indicate that unemployed individuals' probability of obtaining work increase when they enter compulsory labour market period. That is, before they actually participate in labour market training. This incentive effect decreases about 10 months into the perod, during which almost all unemployed individuals participate in labour market training.
The analysis is bases on 10% of the Danish population between 25 and 45 years extracted from Danish Labour market data during the period 1994-1998. The report contains also two other analyses: analysis of unemplyed individuals' behaviour in cennection with the termination of the unemployment insunrance system and an analysis of unemployed indiduals with a marginal connection to the labour market.
The Ph.D. Thesis by Lars Pico Geerdsen was defended in January 2003 at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Economics.