(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …% - corroborate this finding. -- SOEP gross worker flows ; Hartz reforms ; matching efficiency ; unemployment fluctuations …

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours …

This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …