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 …

in German unemployment is fully explained by hysteresis. The Great Recession was well absorbed because both hysteresis … effects and structural unemployment were substantially reduced after institutional reforms. In contrast, U.S. unemployment did …

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 …

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

As a reaction on high and persistent unemployment in Germany, the largest labour market reforms in post-war history … on the efficiency of matching out of unemployment. Especially focussing on searcher heterogeneity, we estimate a system … of simultaneous stock-flow matching functions for short-term and long-term unemployment (3SLS) on the basis of …

-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this …