combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market …

display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We … elasticity of local government cost functions to population size. We find that costs rise (fall) underproportionally with … population size for small municipalities, whereas this is less the case for larger municipalities. This implies that especially …