die wachsende Arbeitslosigkeit vermittelt. Dadurch entsteht der Eindruck, daß diese beiden Entwicklungen auf eine direkte … Irrtum. In diesem Aufsatz nutzen wir die amtlichen Statistiken über Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit und werten Erhebungen … unterdurchschnittliche Zahl von Zugängen in die Arbeitslosigkeit. Andererseits fanden wir heraus, dass in Befragungen unter Arbeitslosen der …

. The coincidence of this kind of news with growing unemployment creates the impression of a direct and simple relationship … between the two developments. In this paper, we use official data on employment and unemployment and exploit a number of …-average unemployment inflows. We find also that among samples of unemployed persons the percentage of those who lost their last job due to …

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions …

labor market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between … sectors as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …