restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million …Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …

market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties … find that the increase in inequality is partly due to a direct monetary impact of the last Hartz reform, Hartz IV, on the …

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 …

In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called Hartz IV … reform. This book evaluates key characteristics of the reform from a microeconometric perspective. It investigates whether a …

Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …