. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as …To which extent does an increase in operating effectiveness of public employment agencies on the one hand and a … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the …

utilizing STW tend to have higher wages, be larger, and have falling employment even before STW take-up. More adverse selection … benefit duration (PBD). Workers above retirement age, ineligible for STW, have identical employment trajectories compared to … did not secure employment at treated firms 12 months after take-up, with minimal heterogeneity across worker …

Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this …

Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999-2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

differ in workers' productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, taxes, labor costs and profits during and after … strength of the initial shock to employment. In the long run, the system asymptotically converges to full employment. If the … rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values during the …

provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less … severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without saving jobs. The cost of saving jobs is low because shorttime work … demonstrates that short-time work saved jobs in firms faced with large drops in their revenues during the Great Recession, in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …

the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has … historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much …