wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

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 …

The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two … utility of union members can reduce unemployment …

, control variables or estimation methods. We discuss to what extent our results are consistent with equilibrium matching models …According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. In this paper, we use a new set of yearly panel data from a …

We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting … good half of the positive effect of reforms on the matching efficiency remains. …Wir analysieren den Zielkonflikt zwischen Umfang und Qualität der Beschäftigung, indem wir eine erweiterte Matching …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the …

resources and function inefficiently. Local labour offices have limited incentives to adopt best practices; the government plans …

search costs play a positive role, whose effect may outweigh the negative implications. As workers are provided incentives to …

of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a … bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings decreases the probability of exiting unemployment within 8 weeks by … unemployment benefits decreases the same outcome by 1.9%. Then, theoretical results from Landais (2014) are used to combine these …