This paper studies how firms' screening behavior and crowding out among applicants affect the optimal design of unemployment policies. In our model, firms face a pool of applicants and observe unemployment duration and a signal about productivity. Firms screen the applicants with the highest...

We examine the behaviour of unemployed older workers up to five years prior to the point at which they can transition out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born...

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

Zuwanderung aus den neuen EU-Mitgliedsländern hat in den letzten Jahren einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Fachkräftesicherung in Deutschland geleistet. So ist die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten aus diesen Ländern zwischen Januar 2010 und Mai 2017 von 254.000 auf 1,14 Millionen...

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor in the rural areas, followed with a discussion of the poor in the informal sector. It then, brings these two sectors together, with an examination of the poor and the...

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...

Um Schwankungen des Arbeitskräftebedarfs zu begegnen, unterbrechen Betriebe zum Teil in Zeiten geringer Auslastung Dienstverhältnisse, um anschließend bei verbesserter Auftragslage dieselben Arbeitskräfte wieder einzustellen ("temporärer Layoff"). Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht erstmals...

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous wage and UI benefits in Finland to identify the causal effects of the benefit level by using a...

Das Bundesprogramm "Soziale Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt" zielt auf die Verbesserung der sozialen Teilhabe von arbeitsmarktfernen Langzeitleistungsbeziehenden im SGB II, die entweder mit Kindern in einer Bedarfsgemeinschaft leben und/oder auf Grund von gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen besonderer...

Die Frage nach der Entwicklung von Arbeitsmarktmobilität, Beschäftigungsstabilität und Beschäftigungssicherheit ist spätestens seit den frühen 1980er Jahren von zentralem Interesse für die Arbeitsmarktsoziologie. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert der Beitrag langfristige Entwicklungen...

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

[Inhalt] 1 Beschäftigungsprojekte unter Legitimationsdruck. 2 Ziele und Arbeitsschritte der Evaluation. 3 Die St:WUK - Eine Beschäftigungsinitiative des Landes Steiermark. 4 Beschäftigung statt Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitsmarktbarrieren. 5 Arbeitsmarktpolitische Effekte - Integration und...

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag der Landesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Burgenland war es, Informationen darüber zu gewinnen, wie a) arbeitslose Personen 45+ durch das AMS Burgenland noch besser betreut und gefördert werden und b) welche Ansätze bei Unternehmen die Beschäftigung älterer...

Die Frage nach der Entwicklung von Arbeitsmarktmobilität, Beschäftigungsstabilität und Beschäftigungssicherheit ist spätestens seit den frühen 1980er Jahren von zentralem Interesse für die Arbeitsmarktsoziologie. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert der Beitrag langfristige Entwicklungen...

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper contributes to the literature by using a novel instrument:...

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term...

Wages are an element of cost crucially aecting the competitiveness of individual firms. But the wage bill is also a crucial element of aggregate demand. Hence it could be that more "flexible" and fluid labour markets, while allowing for faster inter-firm reallocation of labour, may also render...

Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...

The scarring effect is defined as an increase in the probability of future unemployment spells and the reduction of subsequent wages as the result of joblessness early in one's working years. Many youths get into a rut at the beginning of their professional careers when they become unemployed,...

Öffentlich geförderte Weiterbildungen für Arbeitslose sind ein wichtiges Instrument der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Die Bereitschaft der potenziell Geförderten zur Teilnahme ist wichtig, weil sie die individuelle Teilnahmeentscheidung und den erfolgreichen Abschluss solcher Maßnahmen...

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build an equilibrium life-cycle model with labor-market frictions and an operative labor supply margin,...

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on the growth rate and the level of productivity....