Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short …-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net …

phenomenon in Germany remains relatively small and statistically unchanged by the Hartz reforms. …

identification strategy rests on an instrumental variable approach where the county unemployment rate and its relative change …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany … unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … Wahrscheinlichkeit von Arbeitslosigkeit von niedrig- und hochqualifizierten Einheimischen zu analysieren. Unter Verwendung eines …

. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates differ between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …

whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …