This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe … using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and covering job stability with the durations of three employment … analyses reveal highly significant and strongly negative effects of benefit sanctions on the quality of post-welfare employment …

) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly … labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …

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 …. We estimate proportional hazard models using German administrative spell data. According to our results the reform has …

on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also … to enter employment and to exit welfare, at least in the short run. The positive effects tend to work stronger in the …

support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …

In this paper we provide an account of most of the passive labor market policies (unemployment compensation, social … unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits with those receiving social assistance and those not receiving any benefits and … effects of the unemployment and social assistance benefits by comparing these benefits to market wages and by analyzing the …

darauf basierenden individuellen Prämien bei alternativen Leistungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung entworfen. Für die Seite … privater Arbeitslosenversicherung eingegangen. …The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance that includes incentives on the side of …

Versicherungsmodell heraus. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird daher auf die besonders in Deutschland vorherrschenden Zweifel an der …/ Altman, Grubel, Orzag/Snower - which are presented and discussed. It turns out that a true unemployment insurance would be … against such a solution. For example, insurability is often denied on the ground that an unemployment insurance would be too …