Fixing the Leak: Unemployment Incidence before and after a Major Reform of Unemployment Benefits in Germany
Fixing the Leak: Unemployment Incidence before and after a Major Reform of Unemployment Benefits in Germany
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DOI：
10.1111/geer.12014
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Wilke, Ralf A.
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作者：
Dlugosz, Stephan;Stephan, Gesine;Wilke, Ralf A.
我们提出了第一个实证结果的影响，大规模减少失业救济金领取期限对失业流入德国。我们表明，这一高度争议的元素在2006年的哈茨改革诱导工人和企业急于利用以前的立法在其最后几天。此外，我们发现，改革后，向失业过渡的人数大幅下降，老年工人的就业率有所上升。我们的研究结果提供了新的证据，失业流入的变化的重要性，分析失业流出的变化。
We present first empirical results on the effects of a large scale reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths on unemployment inflows in Germany. We show that this highly disputed element of the Hartz-Reforms in 2006 induced a rush of workers and firms to take advantage of the previous legislation in its last days. Furthermore, we find a considerable decline in transitions to unemployment and an increase in employment rates among older workers after the reform. Our results provide new evidence for the importance of changes in unemployment inflows for the analysis of changes in unemployment outflows.