This paper exploits that the Covid‑19 pandemic came as an unexpected shock that temporarily reduced the ratio of … unemployment on workers' careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign conditions, we find greater and …In diesem Papier wird die Tatsache ausgenutzt, dass die Covid‑19 Pandemie ein exogener Schock war, der temporär das …

This paper exploits that the Covid-19 pandemic came as an unexpected shock that temporarily reduced the ratio of … unemployment on workers’ careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign conditions, we find greater and …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … excellent opportunity to test the relationship between unemployment and reservations wages. The analysis opens up the 'black box …