restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

highlighted as being flexible, which this study confirms using micro data from 1980 to the present. Unemployment insured workers … are found to be less geographical job mobile than workers not insured against unemployment, especially for young workers …, especially among workers with unemployment insurance who experience unemployment during the year. Based on data since 1998, it is …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

reducing (policy-induced) outside option of workers, such as a decrease in unemployment benefits, public wages or, to a lesser …