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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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Eine empirische Analyse von Sanktionen für Arbeitslose in Westdeutschland während der 1980er und 1990er Jahre

Wilke, Ralf A. - 2003

This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using … the unemployed. From these results it is questionable whether the current activation policy for unemployed in Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297337

Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?

Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by...

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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data

Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s …

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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment … level of long?term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …

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Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Imigration in Germany

Wilke, Ralf A.; Lo, Simon M. S.; Arntz, Melanie - 2007

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Zahn, Philipp; Wilke, Ralf A.; Müller, Eva - 2006

größere Unternehmen und deren Beschäftigte nutzen die langen Anspruchsdauern auf Arbeitslosengeld zur Frühverrentung. …

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Bewertung der Vorschläge zur Steuerfreistellung des Existenzminimums

Kaltenborn, Bruno - 1995

Aufgrund der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 25. September 1992 muß sich der Gesetzgeber ab 1996, nach einer Übergangsregelung bis 1995, zur Freistellung des Existenzminimums für einen neuen Einkommensteuertarif entscheiden. Einer großzügigen Bemessung des steuerfreien...

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Fixing the leak: unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany

Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009

From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...

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