Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …

Employing a standard matching unemployment model extended by within-labor-market-regions commuting, this paper analyzes … the tradeoff between commuting costs and unemployment. Depending on whether commuters are able to bargain for fringe …, unemployment benefits should be tied to search in high productivity regions. Using German county data, the paper tests some …

This paper introduces and examines a definition of an equilibrium rate of unemployment that can be used as mismatch …

employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …

with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …

being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping …

transition of the former East Germany on the other, are leading to high unemployment, are slowing the transition process, and may …

with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …

reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …