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 …

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

, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured … both the effectiveness and the equity aspects of public works programs in east Germany. …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …