, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …

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 …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …

replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal … of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large …

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour …

Arbeitsangebotsmodell nach van Soest (1995) der Frage nachgegangen, welche maximalen Arbeitsangebotseffekte von der Reform der geringfügigen … Beschäftigung der Status quo nach der aktuellen Reform aufgezeigt. Im dritten Kapitel findet sich eine theoretische Analyse der … präsentiert. Zunächst wird der unmittelbar von der Reform betroffene Personenkreis auf der Basis des Sozioökonomischen Panels …

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. …

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 …