the limitation of current unemployment and disability benefit schemes. The paper identifies possible strategies to …

The three-point VAT increase is part of a package in which unemployment payroll taxes will be reduced. Risks to the … recovery are balanced but the range of forecasts for 2007 is unusually wide. The priority for Germany is to transmit its …

.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that supports that changes in state-level unemployment rates are linked … causality going from mismatches and housing conditions to unemployment rates. The numerical estimates imply that the structural … unemployment rate in 2010 was about 1¾ percentage points higher than before the onset of the housing market meltdown at end-2006 …

-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …In 2005 the German government implemented the so-called Hartz IV reform, which amounted to a complete overhaul of the … German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long …

unemployment rates in some states. Federal government transfers to households also appear to have adversely affected work … incentives in high unemployment states by limiting participation in the labor force. …

The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a … high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …