on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also … to enter employment and to exit welfare, at least in the short run. The positive effects tend to work stronger in the …

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 …

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 …

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards … declines. For the long-term unemployed, we find none and for certain groups of job seekers even negative impacts on the re-employment …. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment …

Exploiting changes in Denmark's unemployment insurance (UI) system — a ‘natural experiment' that reduced the period … during which unemployed individuals could receive UI benefits without being activated — Geerdsen (Econ J 116:738-750, 2006 …) finds that long-term unemployed individuals are more likely to find a job when facing the threat of having to participate in …

In 2005, the unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed were reduced in Germany. We investigate the effect of this … reform on the transition probability from unemployment to employment using a large German administrative spell data set (SIAB … were less affected than East Germans. For short-term unemployed the effect is increasing over unemployment duration while …