The statutory pension system is still the most important income source among senior citizens in Germany. Due to increasing disruptions in employment biographies since the 1970s and due to the mass unemployment in Eastern Germany since the 1990s, there is a growing fear of post-retirement poverty...

In 2005, the unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed were reduced in Germany. We investigate the effect of this reform on the transition probability from unemployment to employment using a large German administrative spell data set (SIAB 1975 - 2010). We estimate that the daily transition...

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term...