There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks … discontinuity designs to show that unemployment does not increase in regions with robust programs while rising up to seventeen …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …