During the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries used short-time work (subsidized reductions in working hours) to preserve employment. This paper documents that short-time work affects the behavior of firms (supply) and households (demand). First, using household survey data from Germany, we show...

Assessing the quantitative relevance of match quality and search frictions for house price dispersion is key to understanding house price formation and the importance of uninsurable housing wealth shocks. In this paper, we use a unique auction-level data set from Norway, combined with a...

Understanding specific barriers to job search and returns to relaxing these barriers is important for economists and policymakers. An experiment that changes the default process for initiating job applications increases applications by 600% on a search platform in Pakistan. Perhaps surprisingly,...

EURES helps jobseekers to find jobs and employers to recruit from all over Europe. The European Union's principle of free movement of workers is one of your most important rights as an EU citizen. It means that you can move to any EU Member State, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and...

EURES helps jobseekers to find jobs and employers to recruit from all over Europe. The European Union's principle of free movement of workers is one of your most important rights as an EU citizen. It means that you can move to any EU Member State, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and...

This paper examines labour market matching in Austria since 2008, with a particular focus on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic at the regional and sectoral level. We use comprehensive monthly administrative data and apply a standard matching model to estimate Beveridge curves for different...