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 …

We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by … latter control for dependencies. The first generation tests indicate, that unemployment is persistent, but nevertheless …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of … of low and high unemployment periods reveals a "low unemployment retard effect". -- Self-employment ; business cycle … ; unemployment ; start-up …

1851-2013 by estimating a multivariate ARFIMA-FIGARCH model (with the unemployment rate and inflation as explanatory …

The influence of human capital, the local unemployment rate, the family situation, personal characteristics and the … social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for … and search intensity. -- Unemployment ; Migration ; Personality Traits ; Risk Attitudes ; Time Preferences ; Trust …