model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … 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 …

model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … 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 …

model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … 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 …

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 …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly … labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust …. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several … respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage …

recent introduction of mandatory second-pillar pension saving. But this reform has also raised questions about the structure …