analysis: the United States, Germany, and Sweden. Our analysis has three main results. First, using individual gross income, we … document that skewness is procyclical and dispersion (variance) is flat and acyclical in Germany and Sweden, as was previously …, especially in Germany and Sweden. The resulting welfare gain—through the lens of a structural model—amounts to 1.3% in …

data from the U.S. and Germany in structural VARs, we find that positive innovations to business uncertainty lead to …

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions, we follow workers from …

differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is …