Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

Tax Credit in Germany, and the other is a reform to Unemployment Insurance. In both reforms we find very significant …

labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … employment. The unemployment rate rises an average of 7 percentage points over the down phase of the cycle, which lasts on … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …

This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low- and high …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …