The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new … approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the …

higher flexibility at the onset of the crisis contributed to a reduction in the unemployment rates after the crisis, while a …

productivity. The welfare state's tax-based social transfers and even unemployment benefits have not clearly harmed employment or …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

of unemployment rate and average wages on crime in a region committed by non-residents, as well as implement a gravity …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job … search, more so in a world where job status is socially important. Thus prosperity and unemployment may go hand in hand … independent of the standard income effect. The paper shows that measured unemployment always may have a voluntary component. In …