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

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 …

German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two …We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …

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 … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …

wir alle individuellen und regionenspezifischen Determinanten, die einen Einfluss auf die Länge der Arbeitslosigkeit haben …