different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

Using the introduction of fixed long-term unemployment benefits in Germany in 2005 as a unique experiment we find … strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …

production, consumption, technical unemployment which has visible effects on the decrease of income of all, but especially on …

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 … reform initiates both a partial effect and an equilibrium effect. The relative importance of these two effects and the size …

' employment, wage sum and profits, and on workers hourly pay and monthly hours worked, by comparing employment and wage changes …

households are not entitled to vote (immigrants who have not yet obtained citizenship), redistribution toward them may be …