01840cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015378 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513531250 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Engbom, Niklas. The German Labor Market Reforms and Post-Unemployment Earnings / Niklas Engbom, Enrica Detragiache, Faezeh Raei. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students In 2003-05, Germany undertook extensive labor market reforms which were followed by a large and persistent decline in unemployment. Key elements of the reforms were a drastic cut in benefits for the long-term unemployed and tighter job search and acceptance obligations. Using a large confidential data set from the German social security administration, we find that the reforms were associated with a fall in the earnings of workers returning to work from short-term unemployment relative to workers in long-term employment of about 10 percent. We interpret this as evidence that the reforms strengthened incentives to return to work but, in doing so, they adversely affected post re-entry earnings. Mode of access: Internet Detragiache, Enrica. Raei, Faezeh. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/162 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2015/162/001.2015.issue-162-en.xml IMF e-Library