, the transition rates from employment to unemployment rose significantly in the three months prior to the reform. For the … into unemployment fell significantly; among the 57 to 64-yearolds they were well over 20 percent lower than without the … of the effects of the financial reform nevertheless shows an annual cost-saving potential for unemployment insurance of 3 …

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures … German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a … show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that …