In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …

" phenomenon in Germany remains relatively small and statistically unchanged by the Hartz reforms. -- Income distribution … ; unemployment ; poverty …

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …

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 …

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 …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost …

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 …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …