Unemployment compensation and unemployment duration before and after the German Hartz IV reform

Arbeitspapier

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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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 186

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Thema: Duration analysis ; hazard rate ; unemployment benefit ; Hartz reform

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nagl, Wolfgang ; Weber, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108755
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ