we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

and those predicted to face a penalty compared to their pre-unemployment wage display overly optimistic wage expectations …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … and/or accepting jobs in distant regions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the existence of these mobility … radius causes a higher geographical mobility and hence higher employment probabilities and wages. …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …