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 …

From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment … compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for … older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and 2007. We apply a difference-in-differences approach to show that the …

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment … dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed …

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 …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …