total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …

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 …

measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from … 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect … includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate into three components considering changes in the workforce's age …

unemployment on workers' careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign conditions, we find greater and …

training which focuses on status mobility. We compare the occupational position before unemployment with the occupational … position after unemployment in respect of the level of qualification. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal data of … avoidance of downward mobility and accordingly unemployment. Our results show that participation in further vocational training …

The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has … UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative …