unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved … agency explains substantial part of the observed post-reform unemployment decline: 34%. If disincentive effects of the agency … discussed unemployment benefits. …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and …

This paper studies the conditional patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. We employ a structural VAR model and …

In this paper I analyze the relationship between unemployment and criminal activity. Using a unique panel data set on … German counties covering the years 2003 to 2009, I estimate the effect of unemployment on crime rates for different kind of … effects. To circumvent the endogeneity of the unemployment rate in the structural equation of interest I interact two sources …

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …