a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement …

its successor Understanding Society. We find that the unemployment rate on leaving full-time education has large impacts …

common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …