unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …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 …

and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment … protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting … out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both … groups. However, the responsibility for employment policies still predominantly lies within Member States of the European …

study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been … relinquished for a larger share of dependent population. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created … basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and … total working hours using a new panel data set. For unskilled and skilled workers in full-time employment, we find labour … marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …

variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …