raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected … duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … function lowers the level of unemployment in an economy with high unemployment benefits. The third chapter empirically …

immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages …

In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We … affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real wage. The bottom-line was that product market reforms … will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under most circumstances.Modeling a microfoundation of mark-ups, we have …

This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a …

the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of … active search and hence higher exit rate from unemployment into nonparticipation. The effect of these measures on total … employment is ambiguous in the model. Simulations show that there are cases when reduction of the unemployment benefits …