market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. -- central exit exams ; earnings ; unemployment ; Germany …

A generalized rise in unemployment rates for both college and high-school graduates, a widening education wage premium … considerable part of the changes but fails to produce the increase in unemployment for the educated labor force. The mismatch shock …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

and weekly earnings, employment, unemployment and full-time work. The study finds that university degrees provide …