Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany /

In 2005 the German government implemented the so-called Hartz IV reform, which amounted to a complete overhaul of the German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model w...

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Hlavní autor: Krebs, Tom
Další autoři: Scheffel, Martin
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/042
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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