experience. Cognitive ability and personal experience of unemployment are not related to caseworker performance. Based on the …

search requirements. More intensive counseling led to shorter unemployment episodes due to faster job entry, but also to more … unemployment but are also cost-effective. …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and … to the explanation of differences in unemployment rates in industrialized countries. The search and matching model is … unemployment and of jobs out of the market (the ‘job destruction’ flow). Steady-state equilibrium is at the point where the two …

vor der Hartz-IV-Reform implementiert wurde, einen viel größeren Beitrag zur Verringerung der Arbeitslosigkeit leistete. … Germany. While the reforms consisted of four parts, it was especially the reform of the unemployment benefit system - the … year earlier, was much more successful in reducing unemployment. The reorganisation or the BA accounts for around 20% of …

matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the market share of the Federal Employment Agency … activities of the Federal Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved …