Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …

for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity …

European unemployment has been steadily increasing for the last 15 years and is …equilibrium unemployment. We then confront the theory to both the detailed facts of …insiders and firms, shocks which affect actual unemployment tend also to affect …

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany … ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are unemployed persons leaving the unemployment register within a given … unemployment compensation play minor roles …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then …-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary …

The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … are more likely than others to leave their job for unemployment or economic inactivity. This probability rises with the …

. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic …The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy … labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen to over 8 percent of the labor force. This paper investigates some …

unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …