Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved post-unemployment job...

This study investigates empirically the effects of a pilot project in which unemployed persons were used as temporary employment counsellors. Economic theory clearly points in the di-rection of a positive relation between search intensity and exit from unemployment. The fundamental concept of...

Im Rahmen des 'Ersten Gesetzes für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt' wurden die Zumutbarkeitskriterien verschärft und die Sperrzeitendauer reformiert, um die Sanktionsinstrumente der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) leichter anwenden zu können, den Missbrauch von Versicherungsleistungen...

Angesichts anhaltend hoher und jüngst wieder steigender Arbeitslosenzahlen ist die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit ein herausragendes Ziel deutscher wie europäischer Politik. Dabei ist es mit den „Hartz-Reformen“ der Jahre 2003 bis 2005 zuletzt zu den tiefstgreifenden arbeitsmarkt- und...

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search...

Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of benefits on geographic labour mobility using individual data from the European Community...

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....