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 …

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 …

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 …

sufficient re-employment prospects of a job-seeker. We comparatively examine the impact of participation for the quantitatively … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

further vocational training increases subsequent transitions into employment. But in regard of labour market policy the … quality of the employment gained is also important. In this report we present an impact analysis of further vocational … training which focuses on status mobility. We compare the occupational position before unemployment with the occupational …

After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …

Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection … regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of employment protection on the size of the temporary work agency … sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …