policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …

rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that … patterns of unemployment. Specifically, trade integration -- which benefits both countries -- may raise their rates of … unemployment. Moreover, differences in rates of unemployment do not necessarily reflect differences in labor market rigidities; the …

countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on …

although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries, the … employment share in manufacturing has not peaked and is still expanding, albeit from very low levels. More work is needed to … understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment …