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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

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dc.creator Schmitz, Hendrik
dc.creator Steiner, Viktor
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:52Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:52Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18410
dc.identifier ppn:527052035
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18410
dc.description 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 data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). We find (i) relatively strong benefit-entitlement effects for the unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for those without such entitlement; (ii) non-monotonic benefit-entitlement effects on hazard rates with pronounce spikes around the month of benefit-exhaustion, and (iii) relatively small marginal effects of the amount of unemployment compensation on the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major impact on the average duration of unemployment in the population as a whole, but will significantly reduce the level of long-term unemployment among older workers.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 678
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject H31
dc.subject J65
dc.subject J64
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject unemployment duration
dc.subject unemployment insurance
dc.subject benefit-entitlement effects
dc.subject German labour market reforms
dc.subject ex-ante evaluation
dc.subject hazard rate model
dc.subject Arbeitslosenversicherung
dc.subject Reform
dc.subject Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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