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 …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then …-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). We build and estimate a … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks …

score matching and reweighting to administrative data from Germany. After a mass layo, women's earnings losses are about 35 …