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 use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …

consider measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed. To make our analysis … German data. The calibration shows that hiring vouchers targeted at the long-term unemployed and low-income/ability workers … the long-term unemployed are more effective than hiring vouchers targeted at low-income/ability workers. These subsidy …

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