Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short …-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … integrated within the existing unemployment support system, keeping all institutional rules regarding conditions, duration and …Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … earn high wages and received high unemployment transfers lose most. The behavioural responses mitigate the redistributive …

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

in affecting overall unemployment. Most notably this refers to the time-related aspects of UI-systems as the duration of … responsible for persistently high and rising unemployment in Germany over the last two decades. …The generosity of unemployment insurance systems is constantly scrutinized by economists. Higher generosity of …

Arbeitslosenhilfe hat sowohl für eine Beseitigung der faktischen Frühverrentungsanreize durch die Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch für …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …