sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment … agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are … involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, where we randomize the timing of the IA as well as the extent to which this …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … unemployed workers with 12 months benefit duration, which occurs around benefit exhaustion. This leads to lower unemployment …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … unemployed workers with 12 months benefit duration, which occurs around benefit exhaustion. This leads to lower unemployment …

long-term unemployed. Our results suggest that job seekers with marginal employment find more stable post-unemployment jobs …In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The … intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to increase their job-finding probabilities. To …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs …In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up … incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging …