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-reform … the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major …

of reform: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover … recipients. Therefore, we discuss several reform options which have been proposed in order to overcome the financial and … years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure turned out to be in need of reform: While health …

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. …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

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 …