Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …

unemployment duration on the re-employment wages for workers 40 years of age and older are empirically estimated using a quasi … duration of unemployment effect is decomposed into the human capital depreciation and stigma effects with the stigma effect …

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …

This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete … explain this. The hazards are not generally declining in time until exhausting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, but rise …

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can … explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we … unemployment among unskilled workers …