Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper … migration is found to increase with search time. …

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment … dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … benefits increases migration among high-skilled individuals. …

unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

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 …

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