The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform … decline in the replacement rate for long-term unemployed. We find that Hartz IV was a major driver for the decline of Germany …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

while revisions of trend labor, mainly driven by revisions of the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU), are …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …

The official unemployment rate has become an inadequate measure of labor market conditions. This poses a major … unemployment rate by weighing part-time workers with 62.5%, the proportion of the time they work relative to full-time workers. We … provide new monthly estimates of the unemployment rate for the period 1994-2019 and find that their average during this 25 …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …