natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor … shocks to job destruction, presenting and solving a simple model of labor market search and endogenous finance. While finance …

packages of Hartz reforms in January 2004 and January 2005, respectively. The aim of these reforms was to accelerate labor … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of … institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …

employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …