Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on … the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures … contrasting it with the chosen strategy in the United States. In Germany, temporary cyclical reductions in working hours are …

This paper evaluates the short-term labour market impact of the COVID-19 containment measures in Germany. It examines … two dimensions of the first lockdown in Germany, namely the length and the strength of the lockdown. While the assessment … considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to …

-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in … change. The proposed framework offers a novel explanation for the observed divergence of unemployment rates across economies … adoption. The results of the paper challenge the popular, but controversial, view that blames generous unemployment insurance …

minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …