In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). We build and estimate a … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks …

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …