variation in state level unemployment rates as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in the outside option available to … unemployment are more likely to express dissatisfaction with their jobs. Other observable demographic, educational, and …

In den letzten zwanzig Jahren hat die Bedeutung internationaler Vergleiche für die Bewertung der Arbeitsmarkt- und … ausländischen Erfahrungen für die Gestaltung von Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialstaatsreformen gelernt werden kann. Skepsis ist angebracht … erfolgreich hat die Bundesrepublik die letzte weltweite Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise bis heute gemeistert. Ein Zwischenfazit zur …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … matching model, we estimate that about 45% of the surge in Spanish unemployment could have been avoided had Spain adopted …

of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …