, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the … employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …. The results suggest that strict employment protection legislation (EPL) gives immigrants a comparative advantage relative …

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 … transition rate into work and that such accepted jobs go along with lower wages. We also find a positive effect of a vacancy …

: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

should be exclusively targeted at unemployed workers with low initial exit rates to employment. For all other workers, they … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the … generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the disincentive effect of UI benefits …. However, unemployed workers typically also have caseworkers assigned who are monitoring and assisting the job search efforts …

transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …

private and public employment based on two features. First, alongside a perfectly competitive private sector, a cost … individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that generates underemployment – educated workers performing unskilled jobs …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …