density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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 …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … declined after the Hartz-reforms. We propose a macroeconomic model of the labor market with a private and a public search … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow … cyclicalities of all establishments to the one of the most procyclical establishments, labor market volatilities drop by more than …