scholarly journals Less-Skilled Workers, Welfare Reform, and the Unemployment Insurance System

10.3386/w6489 ◽  
1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Gustafson ◽  
Phillip Levine
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System

Der Einfluss der Agenda 2010 auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer

2004 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Transition Rates ◽  
Transfer Payments ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Reservation Wages ◽  
Dynamic Search ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
Agenda 2010

AbstractThis paper examines the impacts on reservation wages of unemployed persons and on transition in employment due to the reform of the unemployment insurance system in Germany in the course of the Agenda 2010. An dynamic search-model is developed, on which reservation wages are simulated for different groups of unemployed. Afterwards, increases in the transition rates in employment are forecasted due to the reductions in reservation wages. It is shown that the reform of the unemployment transfer payments mainly affect unemployed persons with a high income before unemployment. For these persons the transition rates in employment are increased by 5% to 9% if they are eligible for social welfare. For unemployed persons without eligibility for social welfare the transition rates in employment are increased by 9% to 22%.

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