accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

traditional predictors of poor labour market outcomes (e.g. education and school dropout status), we find a strong concentration …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …