cost of public employment services that help job seekers find employment. We exploit a large-scale pilot by Germany … decrease in the rate and duration of local unemployment as well as a higher re-employment rate. Disentangling the mechanisms …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they … ; optimal unemployment insurance ; welfare-to-work policies ; recursive contracts …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they … ; optimal unemployment insurance ; welfare-to-work policies ; recursive contracts …