Comment on "Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms" by Stefan Arent and Wolfgang Nagl

Johannes Ludsteck and Stefan Seth

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Abstract: Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform. Their findings suggest that the reform caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication of their study suggests that their clear and strong conclusions are driven by a too coarse modelling of the time effects. They become blurred and weak once the development of wages is investigated based on a finer time grid. Further methodological considerations put into question whether their models are well-suited to investigate the wage effects of the reform.

Keywords: Hartz reforms; unemployment compensation; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J65 J8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-21
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