unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced …By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited … boost employment both in the short run and the long run. Calibrating the model and comparing the results with recent … empirical findings about the impact of labour taxation confirm the theoretical findings. …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … power. A rise in the share of immigrant workers leads to the creation of additional jobs, but also more job competition. The …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

, i.e., those without full time jobs which today in the U.S. is still 10% of the labor force or some 15 million people … for full employment beyond the implications of NAIRU. The latter concept is actually misleading, because most economists … and commentators in the media equate it with "full employment". As a consequence, endemic and large scale un- and …