In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment …

optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance of several conflicting effects, it seems clear that a reform … should be accompanied by an expansionary macroeconomic policy. This makes structural reform more problematic in the context …

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload … employment and welfare recidivism comparing cohorts of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare …

of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … substantially, and leavers are less likely to return to welfare following reform. …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …