This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

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 …

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is … selective. -- Labor market models ; welfare ; optimal unemployment insurance …

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 …

The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance that includes incentives on the side of … employees as well as of employers to reduce unemployment. Each employee pays insurance premiums according to his (her …) individual risk of getting unemployed and according to his (her) preference with respect to the individual level and duration of …

reassessment, we estimate employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits. We find that among those who left disability …-reform employment status. 81% of beneficiaries who had some employment in the pre-reform year worked, while only 33% of those without … pre-reform employment did. The gains of the reform in activating beneficiaries were small and strongly driven by pre …

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the … employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …

according to which the internet can improve information in the labour market and in doing so reduce mismatch-unemployment. …This paper deals with the effects of the New Economy on the German labour market. The results show a large and …