role. Other labor market policies and institutions are important for the transmission of minimum wage policy on labor …

regional “entrepreneurial milieu”, on the individual decision to start a new business out of unemployment. The econometric … version of the logit model that takes care of both the rare events nature of the transition from unemployment to self …

Summary In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and … empirical literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue … data from 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market …

Abstract The unemployment rate is the core indicator when researchers and policy-makers assess the level of … underemployment in an economy. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the unemployment rate is biased and underestimates the … disaggregated dataset from Germany, this study examines the dynamics in labor force participation that go beyond the unemployment …