After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …

reform of the unemployment insurance system in Germany in the course of the Agenda 2010. A dynamic search model is developed … unemployment transfer payments mainly affect unemployed persons with a high income before unemployment. For these persons the …

Spiegeln in Befragungen ermittelte Reservationslöhne valide das wider, was nach der Suchtheorie zu erwarten wäre? Um … diese Frage beantworten zu können, werden auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie unter zu Hilfenahme von empirisch … short spells of unemployment calculated and reported reservation wages correspond very well, whereas reported reservation …

This paper deals with the influence of reported reservation wages at the begin-ning of an unemployment spell on the … unemployment duration be found, whereby it then occurs at a considerable level. …

After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …

The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search … can generate even perfect assortative matching under weak conditions: supermodularity of the match production function is …

The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search … can generate even perfect assortative matching under weak conditions: supermodularity of the match production function is … the model achieves nearly unconstrained efficiency despite frictions. -- Assortative matching ; sorting ; search ; signals …

Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei … führt, im Kontext der Suchtheorie valide ist. Auf dem Weg hin zu einer empirisch gültigen Theorie des Arbeitsmarktes stellt …

This paper develops and equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and … optimal as that induces inefficiently high unemployment rates. …