Unemployment care in Weimar Germany - international perspective
The article deals with the German obligatory unemployment insurance (so-called AVAVG, enacted in 1927) in the interwar period. This scheme replaced an older system, introduced in 1918, based on monetary provisions distributed under means-tests and financed from taxes. The prospective unemployment rate was underestimated. Because of this fact the insurance scheme had the serious trouble of showing a deficit. Financing became an important issue in the political struggle among political parties, and governments were not able to enforce any fundamental curative reform of this scheme before 1933.
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2009
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Authors: | Rákosník, Jakub |
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Acta Oeconomica Pragensia. - Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze, ISSN 1805-4951. - Vol. 2009.2009, 1, p. 78-88
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Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze |
Subject: | unemployment | unemployment insurance | welfare state | Weimar Republic |
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