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 …

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. …

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the … months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets … lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the resilience of local labour markets. Using an empirical strategy that …

subsidy for temporary jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find … large negative effects for traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the …In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …