With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …

Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational …Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job … search, more so in a world where job status is socially important. Thus prosperity and unemployment may go hand in hand … independent of the standard income effect. The paper shows that measured unemployment always may have a voluntary component. In …

Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended … offers throughout their spell of unemployment. The welfare consequences of misperceiving the probability and length of an …

Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain …This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …

enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …