technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future …

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …

large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …

Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in … Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe … often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …