Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the … Great Recession. This paper assesses the role of the labor market reforms for the latter development. Against this …

-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched … employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally … relatives in home countries and to a correction for selection into return migration. We derive important implications for labor …

This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these … models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include … unemployment entry. Research limitations/implications – The findings offer interesting perspectives, e.g. with regard to the design … and targeting of active labor market policy. It may be reasonable to specifically focus on less risk averse individuals …

investigate labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us … slow reintegration into the labor market. It can be argued that this group exerts a relatively low search effort and that …

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job … destroyed about 1.5 private job, sightly decreased participation to the labor market and eventually increased the number of …

cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining power of employees allows them to get rents and gives rise either to … intrafirm bargaining with no hiring cost and decreasing returns of labor, the bargaining power of employees does not allow them … matching model with large firms and diminishing marginal productivity of labor allows us to show that the two limit cases …

if labor contracts are incomplete and can be renegotiated by mutual agreement only. Indeed, we show that increases in … high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy … capital but also for native labor. …