predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …

76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … market search model. Absent the reform, unemployment rates would be 50% higher today …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …

deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of …

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