flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … a predictor for self-employment and less for standard reemployment. Related findings suggest that happiness matters for … wages are considered desirable outcomes for the unemployed individual and society, the shape of the effect suggests an …

but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even … permanent posts. Finally, our results suggest that agency employment may improve subsequent match quality in terms of wages and …

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 … Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the …

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … sufficient re-employment prospects of a job-seeker. We comparatively examine the impact of participation for the quantitatively … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment …