-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed …

/price-setting theory, this increase should reduce structural unemployment, because labour market flexibility increases and labour costs … impact of the relationship between the extensiveness of the low-pay sector and structural unemployment. Data from Germany … 1991 to 2008, indicate a positive impact of the growing low-wage sector on structural unemployment. Moreover, some …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with … evaluate the effects of an increasing low-wage sector on unemployment, the concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of … unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting …