In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The … analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability …

unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …-up subsidies in Germany, and are based on a novel data set of administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency that was …

was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the …