interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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

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 …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

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 …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have … persistence versus relatively high microeconomic labor market flow numbers. We calibrate the model for East Germany and examine …

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 …

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 …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also …

comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb … black box of job creation. We calibrate a combined model with both mechanisms to administrative German wage and labor market …