Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …

labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI) expansions and payroll subsidies. In isolation, payroll subsidies that …

consider individuals up to three months before the envisaged termination of their employment and we study effects of pre-unemployment …-to-be unemployed. This is driven by workers with a relatively high unemployment risk following registration. Thus, the policies …