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 …

risk of persisting unemployment, however, remain specific problems of the elderly. Government sponsored programs to support …

for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is … robustly associated with lower rates of aggregate unemployment. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions … global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry …

in German unemployment is fully explained by hysteresis. The Great Recession was well absorbed because both hysteresis … effects and structural unemployment were substantially reduced after institutional reforms. In contrast, U.S. unemployment did …

theoretical part we focus on the relationship between vacancies and unemployment (labour-market tightness) and show that it does …