Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … hostility to immigration from ethnically distinct populations. Furthermore, there is evidence that welfare and labour market …

from unemployment from a worker's perspective. We also quantify the welfare costs of cyclical fluctuations in involuntary … unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the similar cyclical behavior of involuntary … part-time work and unemployment masks major differences in the underlying dynamics. Unlike unemployment, variations in …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and … that immigrants are more likely to receive both social assistance and unemployment compensation than natives. Immigrants … are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives and are more likely to stay on welfare and to receive …

observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed … local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …

constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner …

, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The … income for various combinations of hours of work and welfare. It can be used for calculating accurate (net) household incomes … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …