• Medientyp: E-Book; Bericht
  • Titel: Unemployment compensation and unemployment duration before and after the German Hartz IV reform
  • Beteiligte: Nagl, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]; Weber, Michael [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Munich: ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, 2014
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Duration analysis ; unemployment benefit ; J68 ; J64 ; Hartz reform ; hazard rate
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  • Beschreibung: In 2005, the unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed were reduced inGermany. We investigate the effect of this reform on the transition probability fromunemployment to employment using a large German administrative spell data set (SIAB1975–2010). We estimate that the daily transition probability of medium wage earnersincreased on average by 24% after the reform. The effect is lower for both, low and highwage earners. Men were less affected than women and West Germans were less affectedthan East Germans. For short-term unemployed the effect is increasing over unemploymentduration while long-term unemployed apparently did not benefit from the reform.
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