The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …

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 …

covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force …The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance … individual countries and labour force projections are given. We expect the labour force in Europe to decline during the next …

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 …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …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 …

wages after nine months of unemployment. Thus, the chance that long-term unemployed persons will receive a wage offer that …This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation …

quickly bring down unemployment and increase GDP significantly. Even former labor market insidersʺ would gain as net wages … increase due to falling unemployment insurance contributions. …

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 …