Arbeitslosenversicherung wird auch als eine der Ursachen für die zu konstatierende Persistenz der Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem deutschen … Arbeitsmarkt angesehen. Neben der Kritik am bisherigen System hat das Angebot einer privaten Arbeitslosenversicherung in … Deutschland die Diskussion sowohl über die Privatisierung der gesetzlichen Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch über die …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

We investigate the impact of workers' exposure to unemployment risk on CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting state …-level changes in unemployment benefits as a source of variation in workers' unemployment costs, we find that after unemployment … insurance benefits become more generous boards increase the convex payoff structure of CEO pay to encourage risk-taking. The …

that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

unemployment insurance across and within countries to gauge workers' demand for insurance. Using a firm-level panel from 41 … unemployment insurance: private and public provision of employment insurance are substitutes. …We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we …