of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

vor der Reform. -- Participation in active labor market programs ; labor market reforms in Germany ; financing of active …

Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

In 2003–05, Germany undertook extensive labor market reforms which were followed by a large and persistent decline in … unemployment. Key elements of the reforms were a drastic cut in benefits for the long-term unemployed and tighter job search and … reforms were associated with a fall in the earnings of workers returning to work from short-term unemployment relative to …

, the transition rates from employment to unemployment rose significantly in the three months prior to the reform. For the … into unemployment fell significantly; among the 57 to 64-yearolds they were well over 20 percent lower than without the … of the effects of the financial reform nevertheless shows an annual cost-saving potential for unemployment insurance of 3 …

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 …

We address the concerns about rising inequality in the German labour market after the implementation of the Hartz … reforms between 2003 and 2005. We focus on the quality of new jobs started between 1998 and 2010 in West Germany in terms of …

participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

unemployment duration on the re-employment wages for workers 40 years of age and older are empirically estimated using a quasi … duration of unemployment effect is decomposed into the human capital depreciation and stigma effects with the stigma effect …