This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities …

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover …, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores factors associated with long …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

successful switching between educational system and labor market, between jobs, between unemployment and inactivity and …

mainly driven via STW. US unemployment rose at an unprecedented rate, but unlike in previous recessions, it was mostly driven …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …

, focussing on vacancy information obtained early in the unemployment spell. As in many other countries, the German activation … propensity score matching approach, we find that vacancy information increases the entry rate into unemployment predominantly by … through other channels. In case of continued unemployment, early vacancy information reduces the participation rate in ALMP …