inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … participate in the labor market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more traditional male breadwinner-model. After …

-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …

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 …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the …

unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job … search, more so in a world where job status is socially important. Thus prosperity and unemployment may go hand in hand … independent of the standard income effect. The paper shows that measured unemployment always may have a voluntary component. In …

-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings …. Moreover, one percentage point increase in the difference in the unemployment rate is associated with an increase in net …