This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …

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

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

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

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our … empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is … the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring … job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labor markets able to absorb …