With the COVID-19 crisis as background, the underlying paper elaborates on setting up an unemployment insurance for … conditions with regard to self-employed and derive conclusions on how unemployment insurance for them should be designed. In this …, we investigate the key elements of such an insurance. When it comes to financing the unemployment scheme, we discuss how …

from employment into unemployment in April 2020 were due to the containment measures. In a second approach, we make use of … the unemployment effect coming from the separations margin. In sum, the lockdown measures increased unemployment in the …

this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons. …