. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … negotiations. The unification shock to the East added at least 2.5 percentage points to Germany's overall unemployment rate, as …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark diŽerences in unemployment levels … between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … apply event history methods to analyze longitudinal samples of first-birth transitions in France, Finland, Germany, and the …

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For … violent crimes, however, the effect of the clear-up rate and unemployment are found to be insignificant. …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of … of low and high unemployment periods reveals a low unemployment retard effect. …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

and potential program substitution in a regression-discontinuity framework. Germany abolished an important early … this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the … reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not find evidence for active …