"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to …

of unemployment benefit receipt into basic social care, to be paid by the unemployment insurance. The so called … 'Aussteuerungsbetrag' set strong incentives that investments in active labor market programs for unemployment benefit recipients should pay … off - in terms of an exit from registered unemployment - before a transition into basic social care for needy jobseekers …

training which focuses on status mobility. We compare the occupational position before unemployment with the occupational … position after unemployment in respect of the level of qualification. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal data of … success is the avoidance of downward mobility and accordingly unemployment. Our results show that participation in further …