We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform … the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major …

of reform: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover … recipients. Therefore, we discuss several reform options which have been proposed in order to overcome the financial and … of reform: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover …

literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime …-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the … mean regression estimates. -- medical malpractice ; tort reform ; Texas closed claims ; damage caps ; quantile regression …

estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple … ; immigration reform …

, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and … allowed them to be transformational enough. -- temporary contracts ; dualism ; labor market reform ; political economy ; Great …

model by comparing reactions to a welfare reform that implied a dramatic increase in welfare benefits predicted by our model …