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

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

unemployment spells and career histo-ries over twenty years from Germany. We find that increases in UI have small to modest effects …This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic … UI during recessions do not lead to lasting increases in unemployment duration, nor can they explain differ-ences in …

Reservationslohn sanktionierter arbeitsloser Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger nachweisen lassen. Ein weiteres interessantes Ergebnis ist … dem Timing der Sanktionen. -- Job search ; unemployment insurance ; benefit sanction ; reservation wages …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

against welfare benefit recipients in Germany and its changes since the introduction of the Social Code II in the year 2005 … receipt. The analysis presents results for men and women in East and West Germany separately. Moreover, we distinguish between … that until the year 2011 was granted to people who exhausted their unemployment insurance benefit within the previous two …