changes in the countries in the sample, control variables or estimation methods. We discuss to which extent our results are … consistent with equilibrium matching models with or without endogenous sorting of workers into jobs providing entitlement to UBs … and stochastic job matching. -- Unemployment benefits ; job reallocation ; matching models …

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …

-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of …

This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in … "spatial" lags for regressors. The results show considerable dependencies between similar occupational groups in the matching …. This has important implications for estimating the matching efficiencies of unemployed and vacancies, because the matching …