of Transition (OST) literature. In particular, it has involved stagnant unemployment pools, large flows to inactivity and …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean …

The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …