paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

decline in the replacement rate for long-term unemployed. We find that Hartz IV was a major driver for the decline of Germany …

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …

-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,349 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …