satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

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 … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … prospects interacts with aggregate conditions to drive fluctuations of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

online vacancy-postings and lowered the average duration of a vacancy and the share of establishments with unfilled vacancies … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …