increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … endogeneity of naturalization most coefficients decline in magnitude and lose statistical significance: male immigrants' labor …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …