restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …

the credit for large falls in structural unemployment rates that have occurred in some OECD countries. Advances in … information technology which facilitate matching job-seekers to jobs, modern management methods, and a favourable economic climate …

search requirements. More intensive counselling led to shorter unemployment episodes due to faster job entry, but also to … unemployment but are also cost-effective. …

with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment spells through faster job entry, but also through more exits from … the labour force in the 2 years following treatment. The duration of unemployment was reduced for a number of subgroups of … time out of the labour force. The quality of jobs after unemployment, measured by wages, did not change. A cost …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …