. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …

children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …