Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre …-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … components: (i) an integration of unemployment assistance and social assistance; (ii) a substantial reduction of the social …

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 … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …