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. …

Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as … build a two-region RBC model with labor market frictions, idiosyncratic consumption risk, and limited cross …

-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes … Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups …, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment …