We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … earn high wages and received high unemployment transfers lose most. The behavioural responses mitigate the redistributive … impact of the reform. …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … earn high wages and received high unemployment transfers lose most. The behavioural responses mitigate the redistributive … impact of the reform …

; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

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 … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net …