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 …

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 …

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to … female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for flexible working hours, discrimination), this is a difficult task …, and the question arises whether active labor market policies (ALMP) are an appropriate tool to do so. Promoting self …

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 …

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to … structure – but also in a series of labor market reforms initiated between 2002 and 2005 altering, inter alia, labor supply … challenges the German labor market will soon have to face. Female labor supply still lies well below that of other countries and …

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 …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates …

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 …

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We … study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … regression yields positive correlations between naturalization and beneficial labor market outcomes. Once we account for the …