Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012 - This Version: December 21, 2012
% - corroborate this finding. -- SOEP gross worker flows ; Hartz reforms ; matching efficiency ; unemployment fluctuations …This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …