With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...

This paper discusses aspects of active labour market policy implemented in Denmark after 1993. In particular, we consider effort commitment as a mean to provide work incentives for the jobless, which was introduced as an alternative to reducing unemployment benefits. Our main points are (1) that...

Prof. Martin Werding, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, hat in Kooperation mit dem ifo Institut, München, und im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen in der vorliegenden Studie aktualisierte Berechnungen zur Tragfähigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen erstellt. Dabei wird mit annahmegestützten...