identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …

unemployment. We show that the incentive power of the equilibrium wage contract is constrained socially efficient in the absence of … unemployment benefits. We then apply the model to explain the recent increase in performance-pay contracts. Within our model, this … factors is an increase in the equilibrium unemployment rate. …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0:3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …