Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US … unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative feedback between UI expenditures and layoffs … (“experience rating”). The UK has no specific UI: Unemployment benefits are paid by the “National Insurance” which also covers …

die jeweils zugrunde liegende politische Situation als auch bezüglich der Höhe der Arbeitslosigkeit. Es wird gezeigt, daß …In search of an efficient system of unemployment insurance the authors take a look at German history. Four periods of … German unemployment insurance are analyzed, namely those of 1871/1914, 1918/32, 1933/39 and 1949/2001. These periods differ …

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …

Es wird untersucht, wie ein System privater Versicherungen gegen das Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit beschaffen sein sollte … Verminderung von Arbeitslosigkeit gibt. Für die Arbeitnehmer wird ein Modell zur Bestimmung des individuellen Risikos und der …The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance that includes incentives on the side of …

The authors calculate the statistic fundamentals of a dual system of private unemployment insurance, using data of the … year 2000. It is shown how much the individual employee would have to invest for a variety of unemployment payments and for … the rate of his firm’s unemployment tax. …

not actually necessary because there is a comprehensive model called "unemployment benefit II". Instead, the reduction of … the rate of contributions to the unemployment insurance system should be considered as a useful policy option. …

Based on a combined register database for Norwegian and Swedish unemployment spells, we use the ‘between …-countries-variation’ in the unemployment insurance systems to identify causal effects. The elasticity of the job hazard rate with respect to …

This study describes the probability of transition from unemployment with unemployment insurance (UI) to sickness with …

We investigate how unemployment exit probabilities are affected by economic incentives, spell duration and … macroeconomic conditions. Building on a database containing all registered unemployment spells in Norway in 1989-1998, we apply an …