unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment …

' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … individuals with some health impairment. The reform induced a substantial reduction in the potential duration of regular … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which …

effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine …

benefit duration) in the near future as a response to the worldwide economic crisis. -- Unemployment ; income distribution …Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short …-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …