logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have generally not changed significantly after the reform: the … somewhat. After the reform, welfare persistence and welfare-to-employment transitions of immigrants became more responsive to …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal … capital ; labor market search ; unemployment insurance ; German labor market reform …

Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million … this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually …

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 …