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beneficial impact on participants: It reduces the share of unemployment benefit II recipients and raises the employment rate in …Further vocational training for the unemployed aims at enhancing their job prospects. This paper analyses the … effectiveness of such subsidized training programmes for means-tested unemployment benefit recipients in Germany. The empirical …

this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment … contributed for only less than 9 percent to the decline in unemployment. By contrast, more than 37 percent of the unemployed …

There is an ongoing discussion that centres on the German labour market reforms (2003- 2005) and the role of these … process on the labour market, I use rich, high-frequency, and recent administrative panel data to present new details … findings, the results show detailed differences in the changes in matching productivity on occupational labour markets. …

This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth … variation in local broadband availability. The results suggest that broadband expansion had a positive effect on employment … broadband in the production process that leads to complementary hiring, respectively a slowdown of employment growth, in the …

The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various … factors in a unified methodological framework and systematically weighs the candidate reasons for the labour market upswing … against each other on an empirical basis. The candidates are: shocks on (de)regulation of employment or job creation intensity …

total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …Active labour-market policy (ALMP) not only affects the labour-market success of participants. Due to indirect effects … the participants, this does not mean that ALMP improves the labour-market situation as a whole. Therefore, this paper …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …