, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have … dependence" arising from causal factors and "sorting" effects due to unobserved heterogeneity in the unemployment pool. I also …

between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data …-state or 'equilibrium' unemployment rates for various groups of the labour force. It is shown that these differ greatly between …

" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the … labor market and that participants are, on average, worse off concerning their re-employment prospects in regular jobs than …

analyse the effect of the tax cuts on transitions into and out of self-employment and on the rate of self-employment. We apply … indicate that the decrease in tax rates did not have a significant effect on the self-employment decision. …