Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentiallyopposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup … while unemployed and the subsequent firms’ success. To do so, we create a comprehensive dataset on founders in Germany that …