, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

presented. The effects on the employment probabilities of the unemployed are small and negative so far. A theoretical analysis … placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of … employment services was reorganized at once, making an econometric evaluation difficult, only a small part of services has been …

private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative data provided for the first time by the Federal Employment Agency and … vouchers. We find positive treatment effects on the employment probability after one year of 6.5 percentage points in Western …

frictions. Our results suggest that the disproportional growth of GDP (labour productivity) in comparison to consumption (wages …While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have … successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production … agreements significantly influence firms' employment policies. Enrolments and the employment of free-lance collaborators are …