This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

In Finland the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to the age of 60, when they can … retire via a particular unemployment pension. In 1997 the eligibility age of persons benefiting from this scheme was raised … from 53 to 55. We consider changes in the risk of unemployment, unemployment durations, and the exit states before and …

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 Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …

changes in the unemployment compensation system enacted in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that ?incentives … rates of their younger peers during the 1980s and 1990s, when unemployment benefits got increasingly generous, thereby …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … Arbeitslosigkeit dieser Gruppe untersucht. Die Analyse beruht auf der IAB{Beschäftigtenstichprobe 1975-2001, welche tagesgenaue … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Außerdem ist eine Verkürzung der Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit nach der …

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … Arbeitslosigkeit der 54-56jährigen untersucht. Die Analyse beruht auf der IAB{Beschäftigtenstichprobe 1975-2001, welche tagesgenaue … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform …