This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

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 …

-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross … opportunity cost of employment. …

individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and … job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment … received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re-employment … outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

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