We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …