competitiveness and in the exports/production ratio occurs before the implementation of the labour market reform, and this comes with … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … reform initiates both a partial effect and an equilibrium effect. The relative importance of these two effects and the size …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started … in response to the reform are, on average, smaller, but have similar growth expectations and education levels compared to …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …