This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … individuals with some health impairment. The reform induced a substantial reduction in the potential duration of regular … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …