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 …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …