and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment … protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting … out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both … groups. However, the responsibility for employment policies still predominantly lies within Member States of the European …

study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been … relinquished for a larger share of dependent population. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created … basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in …