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 …

. 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 …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

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

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 …

, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs, raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics …

impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … points after five years relative to that of the control group. For those who stay in employment, working part-time and … switching to less physically or psychosocially demanding jobs are important adjustment paths. The negative labor market effects …

many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. However, there is virtually no evidence on … the federal New Jobs Tax Credit in the 1970s. This paper provides evidence on the effects of state hiring credits on job … specific types of hiring credits - most notably including those targeting the unemployed, those that allow states to recapture …