Based on a Cox Proportional Hazard analysis of German unemployment spells, structural change of the production process … is identified as a major explanation for long-term unemployment. Other important covariates capture labor market … economy, or spend a longer time in unemployment searching for the few remaining jobs for which they possess adequate skills. …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die … großen Teil an der Nachfrage nach Arbeit ansetzt. <p>Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of … the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative …

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …