vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform … beobachtet. Die 54-56jÄahrigen unterscheiden sich nach der Reform nicht mehr von der Gruppe der 52-53jÄahrigen. Insbesondere …

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 … 2006-reform are qualitatively similar, but quantitatively much smaller. We also show that the social welfare maximizing …

, it deals with two debates of reform: the activation of labour market policies and the reduction of social transfers for …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …

economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We ?rst propose a general framework to assess merger … tools; and 4) deterrence of anti-competitive mergers. To infer the economic impact of the merger policy reform, we compare … the results of our four tests before and after its introduction. Our results suggest that the policy reform seems to have …

of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and Pakes (1996), which corrects for simultaneity bias. Furthermore, we allow selection to reform to be endogenous, and … correct for this selection bias by formulating an entry rule to reform similar to the Olley and Pakes (1996) exit rule. We …