We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of … labor market flows but also of the approximation error embedded in other decompositions that use surrogates for the current …

technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future … digitalization is likely to affect the German labor market in the next five years and derives implications for policy makers on how …

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 …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and … dependence" arising from causal factors and "sorting" effects due to unobserved heterogeneity in the unemployment pool. I also …

between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data …-state or 'equilibrium' unemployment rates for various groups of the labour force. It is shown that these differ greatly between …