We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … earn high wages and received high unemployment transfers lose most. The behavioural responses mitigate the redistributive … impact of the reform. …

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 … is based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample containing register panel data for about 500.000 individuals in …

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 … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with employment risk and labor market search in order evaluate the effects …

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … gain from such a reform is modest, however. It amounts to no more than two euros per person per month. …

sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Außerdem ist eine Verkürzung der Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit nach der … Reform zu beobachten. Die 54-56jährigen unterscheiden sich nach der Reform nicht mehr von der Gruppe der 52-53jährigen …

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … nonemployment after an employment spell which contain at least one period with unemployment compensation transfers. The second proxy … includes all episodes between two employment spells during which an individual continuously received unemployment benefits …