impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …

The persistence of unemployment in Germany calls for innovative instruments in active labour market policy. In recent … reduction of structural unemployment. Although economically efficient, however, the implementation of such schemes is hampered …

reform of the unemployment insurance system in Germany in the course of the Agenda 2010. A dynamic search model is developed … unemployment transfer payments mainly affect unemployed persons with a high income before unemployment. For these persons the …

short spells of unemployment calculated and reported reservation wages correspond very well, whereas reported reservation …

This paper deals with the influence of reported reservation wages at the begin-ning of an unemployment spell on the … unemployment duration be found, whereby it then occurs at a considerable level. …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …