The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … problems of transition, resulting in a loss of employment of more than a third and a sustained structural weakness of its …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark differences in unemployment levels … variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. Various panel …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For … violent crimes, however, the effect of the clear-up rate and unemployment are found to be insignificant. …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …