This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

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 …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of … Monitoring Survey. Our results indicate that while higher rates of unemployment make workers feel less job secure, the wage …