In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). We build and estimate a dynamic stochastic search-matching model with...

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Überlegung, dass Arbeits- und Immobilienmärkte nicht als perfekt anzusehen sind und von unvollständigen Informationen sowie Transaktionskosten geprägt sind. Individuen haben daher nicht zu jedem Zeitpunkt Informationen darüber, welche...

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...