unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. -- central exit exams ; earnings ; unemployment ; Germany …

Unemployment in the United Kingdom has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key … monetary policy as an institutional change that reduced inflationary pressures in the face of falling unemployment. The decline …