My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …

The paper is focused on problems of long-term unemployment, which strongly affect especially European labour markets …. Existing differences in the long-term unemployment during the entire period under consideration 1993–2009 are caused by … of the long-term unemployment has its significant economic and social consequences. If the situation of long …

Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious … economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a … historical approach was used which viewed unemployment as consisting of two parts: a cyclical component and an underlying …

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem … raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected …

relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …

immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages … Arbeitsmarktergebnis (bspw. Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit) sowie die einheimische Immigrationspolitik. Wir erweitern damit die bestehende … Papier gibt eine Übersicht zur bestehenden Literatur bezüglich des Einflusses von Immigration auf Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit …

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 …