of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every … theory of contract. Finally, the empirical literature on employment and labor law is reviewed. I conclude that many aspects … contrast, empirical labor market research focuses upon ex post match efficiency in the face of an exogenous productivity shock …

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 …

Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the … causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the roles of unemployment and re-employment spells … the model separately for distinct immigrant groups, and find that, overall, unemployment spells shorten immigration …

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 …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

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 …

effort provision and labor market outcomes. Based on large-scale register data, we estimate the returns to required job …