In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …

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 … negotiations. The unification shock to the East added at least 2.5 percentage points to Germany's overall unemployment rate, as …

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

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

country has experienced since the Great Depression. In this paper we decompose the changes in the unemployment rate by … examining worker ows into and out of unemployment during the last four recessions in the United States with a special focus on … contributions to the aggregate unemployment rate changes, we attempt to evaluate the relative importance of cyclical and structural …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of … of low and high unemployment periods reveals a "low unemployment retard effect". …