miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …

'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany … apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …