The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with … evaluate the effects of an increasing low-wage sector on unemployment, the concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of … unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting …

Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past … business cycle theory. It also probes in which direction models may be extended from here. Empirically, the book uses different …

the labor market and analyze the transmission of the shocks to the natural rate of unemployment and production. In a first …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …