Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for …

-employment. -- Self-employment ; state dependence ; labor market dynamics ; unemployment …