The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs … revenues among transfer payments and old-age pensions. We show that the coalitions formed, the resulting political equilibria …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. -- redistribution …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

people in January 2013 - or 15.1 percent of all Americans - and the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI), which more than …

, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of …Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions … redistribution often benefits middle/high income workers more than low income workers 3) they do not provide continuous protection as …