Unemployment results in lower levels of cognitive skills and has long-term effects on health and economic well …-being. In this paper, I show that unemployment also has negative effects on noncognitive skills, at least in the short term …. Using a sample of Germans born between 1945 and 1995, I account for potential endogeneity by using state-level unemployment …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

histories in Germany between 1975 and 2010. We estimate difference-in-differences models, using a sample in which we match …

market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 years old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …