density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of … institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …

establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow … cyclicalities of all establishments to the one of the most procyclical establishments, labor market volatilities drop by more than …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows … German welfare system and the associated employment persistence. Even the steady decrease of labor cost (normalized by … productivity) since the beginning of the nineties did not help to kick start the East. We suggest that labor force participants …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …