unemployment insurance can only be regarded as very inefficient and requiring urgent comprehensive reform. An increase in … individual freedom and responsibility, as well as more competition are at the heart of a promising modern reform concept which …

proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform … beobachtet. Die 54-56jÄahrigen unterscheiden sich nach der Reform nicht mehr von der Gruppe der 52-53jÄahrigen. Insbesondere …

Reformen in Deutschland, die auf eine weit reichende Umstrukturierung der Rahmenbedingungen, des Förderinstrumentariums und … subsidies (Agenda 2010, "Hartz-rules"). It appears that neglecting the interrelation of effects may endanger the reform … neglecting the economic, financial and social interrelations in the political debates as well as in the legislative reform …