consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany’s trade surplus …

countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching … labour market, which replicates the data quite well. We then explore the reform possibilities in the French labour market and …

allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform … considerably. Differences in the reform spillover effects between foreign countries are mainly due to differences in …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal … of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large …

countries—Germany and France—on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching efficiency … labour market, which replicates the data quite well. We then explore the reform possibilities in the French labour market and …

consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany's trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany's trade surplus …