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 …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …'s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …