Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany:
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Main Author: Krebs, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2013
Series:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 13/42
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Abstract: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 with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare effects of the Hartz IV reform. We calibrate the model economy to German data before the reform and then use the calibrated model economy to simulate the effects of Hartz IV. In our baseline calibration, we find that the reform has reduced the long-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases, but the welfare of unemployed households decreases even with moderate degree of risk aversion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (42 p)
ISBN:1589062701
9781589062702