Die Digitalisierung bietet der Arbeitsverwaltung neue Möglichkeiten, Arbeitsuchende zu beraten und in Arbeit zu vermitteln. Eine dieser Möglichkeiten ist die sogenannte Digitale Peer-Gruppen-Beratung (DIGIPEG): Arbeitsuchende können sich in einem Online-Chat austauschen;...

"Die Digitalisierung bietet der Arbeitsverwaltung neue Möglichkeiten, Arbeitsuchende zu beraten und in Arbeit zu vermitteln. Eine dieser Möglichkeiten ist die sogenannte Digitale Peer-Gruppen-Beratung (DIGIPEG): Arbeitsuchende können sich in einem Online-Chat austauschen;...

Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility programs along administrative borders of German employment...

Does a worker's first job affect her long-run career? Do any such "first job effects" vary across workers of different types? If so, can policy improve upon a "free" labor market by altering initial matches with employers? We begin to study the impact of market design on the performance of...

This study proposes and applies a new methodology to analyse firms' and workers' occupational preferences. We use microdata covering all 2014-2018 vacancy and jobseeker registrations from the Public Employment Services of Belgium, Morocco, and South Korea. We find that a small number of...

We generate measures for search intensity of employers and job seekers and - as a novel feature - for placement intensity of employment agencies. For this purpose, we tap big data on online activity from the job exchange of the German Federal Employment Agency and its internal...