Mit der vor fünf Jahren in Kraft getretenen Hartz- IV-Reform waren große Erwartungen verbunden. Tatsächlich ist im letzten Aufschwung die Zahl der arbeitslosen Hartz-IV-Bezieher kräftig gesunken. In den vorhergehenden Konjunkturzyklen hatte der Bestand derjenigen Arbeitslosen, die staatliche...

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model...

Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of benefits on geographic labour mobility using individual data from the European Community...

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...