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 …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as … build a two-region RBC model with labor market frictions, idiosyncratic consumption risk, and limited cross …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non … can be an efficient labor market policy instrument to improve the quality of life of the long-term unemployed. …