In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment hazard. Our results indicate that two-tier unemployment compensation schemes might create a long-term unemployment trap: If … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

Displacement ; Mass-Layoffs ; Unemployment Insurance System …We show that workers displaced from their stable jobs during mass-layoffs in 1982 recession in Germany suffered … long-run loss is due to a decline in wages. We also show that even the generous German unemployment insurance system …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …