analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

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

: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … increases particularly in non-tradable sectors in the short run. At the same time, unemployment drops while individual wages do …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working. -- Unemployment …

income, time-stable individual traits, employment biographies and local labor market effects.Given a broad set of further …

employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed … to industrial robots exhibit considerably larger reductions in both employment and wages when their labor markets …

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

normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than …