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. …

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 …

In the post-war economic history of West Germany, there have been two periods of significant unemployment. If we take … hindsight interpretation. In this paper, we shall take an economist's look at this first period of unemployment, i.e. we do not … yield a plausible economic explanation of the causes of and the remedies for the unemployment problem of the time. In detail …

, unemployment and technical change will result in relatively capitalabundant countries. We estimate the factor price frontier for … frontier coincide with significant hikes in unemployment. …

In recent years, there has been an intense debate among economists about the causes of unemployment in Europe. Broadly … crucial assumption that - by and large - the unemployment of the eighties is an analytically new phenomenon to be explained … Keynesian unemployment. It is the purpose of this paper to show that this assumption is not warranted so that, at least in some …

Arbeitslosigkeit. Hier wie dort sind gegenwärtig rund zwei Millionen Menschen arbeitslos. …

The main point of this paper will be that West German unemployment in the late 1980's has a curious double character …-paradigms of unemployment in West Germany: the traditional Keynesian demand-gap and the neoclassical wage-gap approach, the … explanation of the current persistence of unemployment in Germany, but that some of them - notably the wage-gap and the hysteresis …

By historical standards, the 1980's have been a time of high unemployment in West Germany. Not surprisingly, they have … also been a boom period for theories about unemployment and policy proposals against it. This paper is an attempt in … unemployment nevertheless remaining a persistent macroeconomic phenomenon. Of course, the survey-like nature of the paper prohibits …

We study the long-run relation between money, measured by inflation or interest rates, and unemployment. We first … where both money and unemployment are modeled using explicit microfoundations, integrating and extending recent work in … accounts for some but not that much of trend unemployment -- by one measure, about 1/5 of the increase during the stagflation …