Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment … this. The results show that IAs early in the spell have on average a small positive effect on entering employment within a … adverse prospects. Among them, being assigned to an early IA increases the probability of re-employment within a year from 45 …

re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were … policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of …

This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

. -- Self-employment ; state dependence ; labor market dynamics ; unemployment …This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in … West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment …

sufficient re-employment prospects of a job-seeker. We comparatively examine the impact of participation for the quantitatively … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …"Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of …