In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to "inverse cohort crowding" or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …

largely unexplored, set of determinants of the effectiveness of Keynesian and supply-side economic policies. -- unemployment … ; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect … unemployment responsiveness …

a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources of variation to …

that the shocks associated with the free movement of workers from Eastern Europe have temporarily increased unemployment in …

- on average - higher for immigrants. We also propose an alternative measure of unemployment which includes the discourage …

job seekers to be matched, raising employment and unemployment simultaneously. In the medium run vacancies increase, the … employment surge accelerates and unemployment declines. Labor supply shocks caused by foreigners have an unambiguous and positive …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …