This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …

Gutscheine soll mit der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit steigen sowie mit der Qualifikation und der anschließenden Beschäftigungsdauer … in Abhängigkeit vom neuen Lohn, der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit und der Beschäftigungsdauer berechnet werden kann. … of time. The size of the vouchers increases with the duration of unemployment as well as with the qualification and …

underutilization, and unemployment arising from the decline of the tradeable sector. …

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …