active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies … whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive … the unemployment benefit entitlement system with monthly absence data for East and West Germany for the years 1991 …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …