to unemployment insurance in most OECD countries. From the perspective of transitional labour markets we analyse the … corresponding welfare regime focusing on employment and unemployment transitions. We propose a restructuring of national social … security systems mainly unemployment insurance, employment protection, pension systems, household work and life-long learning …

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

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an economic environment in … new, but there is no unanimity on the corresponding institutional model it implies. Rather than proposing a reform on the … basis of existing institutions abroad, we propose a reform that is explicitly guided by economic principles. In a nutshell …

We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL … the strictness of EPL, the generosity of UBs and the amount of redistribution involved by the financing of unemployment …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform …In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …