Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … the differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder …

throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … over-employment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel’s theory of … matching model with large firms and diminishing marginal productivity of labor allows us to show that the two limit cases …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …

groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of … results point out that EPL reforms achieve the largest reduction in unemployment when they are targeted to workers with lower …

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to their efficient values, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax …