This book examines unemployment insurance policy through a survey, taking stock of the theoretical work in the field of labor economics. It closely follows and assesses developments in the modelling of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policies, beginning with the initial analytical findings...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The starting points -- Chapter 3. The optimal level of unemployment insurance -- Chapter 4. The optimal time profile of UI policy -- Chapter 5. Unemployment insurance over the business cycles -- Chapter 6. Some further notes on the role of a UI system --...

The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment...

Die dritte Langfristprognose von Economix schätzt zum einen die Auswirkungen des jüngsten Flüchtlingsstroms auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt und die Qualifikationsstruktur der Arbeitskräfte ab und prognostiziert zum anderen die Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung. Alle Berechnungen zeigen,...

Part I. The Context Structures and the Policy-Specific Debates: 1. Introduction: shaping the debate on unemployment and the labor market Hanspeter Kriesi, Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati and Regula Hanggli; 2. Theoretical framework: production of policy-specific political communication Regula...