Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

inclusion through 'activation, it can be seen that currently nearly a quarter of a million people in Germany are registered as … unemployed without any entitlement to unemployment benefits or any individual social protection like health care. These …, stricter eligibility rules to unemployment benefits introduced with the reforms. This re-familisation of social security stands …

In 2005 a major reform of the German means-tested unemployment benefit system came into force. The reform aimed at … the outcomes regular employment, neither being registered as unemployed nor as job-seeker and no unemployment benefit II … participants. During the first two years after programme start, participation does not contribute to avoiding unemployment benefit …

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform … after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity … labor market situation increased after the reform. …

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform … after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity … labor market situation increased after the reform. …