With the COVID-19 crisis as background, the underlying paper elaborates on setting up an unemployment insurance for … conditions with regard to self-employed and derive conclusions on how unemployment insurance for them should be designed. In this …, we investigate the key elements of such an insurance. When it comes to financing the unemployment scheme, we discuss how …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … "Hartz-reforms", unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study "Labour market and social …

total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …