In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …

educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

programme when they take into account that workfare is a condition for remaining eligible for unemployment benefits. This … outside option becomes less attractive. Introduction of workfare policies into an unemployment insurance scheme is shown to … contribute to a reduction in both open and total unemployment. It is also shown that the direct search effects of workfare …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …