This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural … generate a lag between the introduction of unemployment insurance and a deterioration of the work ethic. Relying on a … calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As …

In this extensive report, we assess how a European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS) could be designed. To this end … be found in national unemployment benefit schemes, while others are more related to the EUBS context. We analyse the … a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme”. All this information is integrated into a summary fiche for each of the 18 EUBS …

The federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI) in the United States was established by the Social Security Act … the aim of revealing lessons for a possible European unemployment benefit system (EUBS). We examine areas of federal …