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Hartz IV ist tot – Es leben die Hartz-Reformen!
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2013
der Arbeitslosigkeit. Gleichzeitig waren die anderen Reformen, Hartz I bis Hartz III, umso hilfreicher. …
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
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Describing the Dynamics of Distributions in Search and Matching Models by Fokker-Planck Equations
Bayer, Christian; Waelde, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2011
distributions of productivities, fi?rm types, human capital, entitlement to unemployment benefi?ts and wealth become increasingly …
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment bene … the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the … effects of a recent unemployment bene?t reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general …
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Matching and Saving in Continuous Time: Theory
Bayer, Christian; Wälde, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2010
We analyse optimal saving of risk-averse households when labour income stochastically jumps between two states. The generalized Keynes-Ramsey rule includes a precautionary savings term. A phase diagram analysis il- lustrates consumption and wealth dynamics within and between states. There is an...
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Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2013
reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the re- duction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the …%) of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect …
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