High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial … markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany and Japan being possibly inferior to stockmarket based financial …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …