largely unexplored, set of determinants of the effectiveness of Keynesian and supply-side economic policies. -- unemployment … ; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect … unemployment responsiveness …

empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …

sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in …

empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able 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 …

policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …