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 …

forecasting German unemployment in the short run. Every month, the CEOs of the FEA’s regional agencies are asked about their … expectations of future labor market developments. We generate an aggregate unemployment leading indicator that exploits serial …

suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …

jurisdictions, public inputs may also be overprovided if unemployment is caused by a fixed wage above the competitive wage rate. In …

Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … "Hartz-reforms", unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study "Labour market and social …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …

In this paper I build a North-South model of international trade, economic growth and search-frictional unemployment in … the effects of intellectual property rights protection and trade liberalization on unemployment and welfare in the North …. Intellectual property rights protection decreases unemployment and increases welfare. Trade liberalization increases welfare but …