between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial/leadership positions and unemployment …

unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in …

individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are … evidence for an unemployment stigma determined by the contract type. …

individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are … evidence for an unemployment stigma determined by the contract type. …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …

Self-employment grants and employment subsidies are active labor market programs that aim at helping unemployed workers … to escape unemployment by becoming self-employed or being hired at an initially reduced cost for the employer. > In … Sweden in the 1990's the participation rate in the self-employment program increased from virtually none to almost same as in …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high … school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …