active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

unemployment by studying a sample of job spells drawn form the German Socio-Economic Panel-East. The study focuses the period from … estimate the effects of important covariates on the transition rates from the old job into a new and into unemployment by a … market program that was in force until the end of 1991, slowed down the exit rate into unemployment prior to its end. We find …

alternative jobs and into unemployment vary with tenure in a way, which is in line with predictions of theories of job mobility …