reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour …

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

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 … unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …