restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the …

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

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 …

demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases … labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force. …