insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts are better. Unemployment insurance finances subsidies through implicit …In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the … subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment …

of economic governance and class relations -- 4. Separating workers from consumers -- 5. Separating consumption from … labour income -- 6. Integrating consumption and labour income -- 7. Drawing the threads together -- 8. Governance, class …

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

(unemployment generosity, tax wedge, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation, product market regulation …

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

While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …