We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …

total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be …-generation immigrants in Germany. Importantly, the analysis shows that the immigrant-native gap in union membership indeed depends on … immigrants' integration into the workplace and society. The gap is smaller for immigrants working in firms with a works council …

and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms of the unemployment benefit system such as in Germany intended to … effects on the matching efficiency of a number of ALMPs, but the effects partly differ between high and low unemployment …