received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then …-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The … analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

agencies as well as the resulting job match qualities, taking a job-market reform in Germany into account: the introduction of …

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

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …

unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll … the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …