aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and …

The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … hysteresis effect - is quite popular among economists. However, because of an identification problem, much of the empirical … is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the absence of weak exogeneity of …

rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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 …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …