increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods … equilibrium effects. Adjusted estimates of the positive net fiscal impact of average recent U.S. immigrants rise by a factor of 3 …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

selection back to full-time work after birth. We discuss policy implications regarding statistical discrimination and results on …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how … expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost … managers drive firm performance. Discrimination against qualified business leaders causes first-order economic losses …