pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment. …

decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market inequality to higher employment, but also more … inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … explained? The paper claims that changes in labour market institutions such as unemployment benefits, active labour market …

structures of both employment and unemployment complements this study. …The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions … employment protection, unemployment insurance and active labor market policies in different European welfare states (Denmark …. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On …

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms’ hiring and firing decisions. We … particular to assess whether the provision of employment protection induces less effort among workers in the form of absenteeism … we observe them for one year. We show that the number of days of absence per week more than doubles once employment …

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an … of young workers, policies to make vocational training systems more effective and to adjust employment protection as well …

and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offspring's employment …This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …