We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled cross-section of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second stop, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …

classical argument that German labour market institutions (collective bargaining, unemployment benefits, etc.) lead to rigid … wage structures and high unemployment rates. Third, in the service sector it is the group of medium-skilled employees which …