High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

unemployment when taking place in industries characterized by low skilled wage rigidity. Thus, in terms of unemployment, not …

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …% - corroborate this finding. -- SOEP gross worker flows ; Hartz reforms ; matching efficiency ; unemployment fluctuations …

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different … five longitudinal surveys to analyze effects of parental unemployment on entry to postsecondary education in 21 countries …. The results of multilevel regression analysis show that contexts providing better insurance against unemployment in terms …

with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …