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 …

Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the … Great Recession. This paper assesses the role of the labor market reforms for the latter development. Against this …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic … factors that have contributed to this development include the strong position of the German economy due to recent labor market …

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 …

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 …

consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy … capital but also for native labor. …

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 …