Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual … income concepts. This paper analyzes work incentives inherent in the German tax-benefit system when extending the time …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low income individuals. Work … incentives are even higher if the time horizon is extended to more than one year, pointing at an overestimation of the …

Job search requirements constrain the effort choice of unemployment insurance recipients by enforcing a minimum number …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work … incentives are even higher if the time horizon is extended to more than one year, pointing at an overestimation of the …