Although Estonia developed a functioning market economy, it has hardly succeeded in catching-up economically with the richer countries...

In the early nineties Denmark like many other Western European countries experienced a severe rise of the unemployment rate - reaching...

Following the drastic labour market reforms of 1991 the New Zealand labour market development was characterized by a pronounced drop...

In the early eighties the Netherlands experienced a severe economic crisis with a pronounced rise of the unemployment rate. Not even...

The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance that includes incentives on the side of employees as well as...

Estonia has hardly succeeded in catching-up economically with the richer countries of the euro area. Correspondingly, the level of...

The authors develop a system of private unemployment insurance that gives workers and employers equal incentives to reduce...

The German system of unemployment insurance has failed to prevent the rise of unemployment over the past decades. ...

The paper is about the economically efficient design of financial transfers to the unemployed in a highly industrialized country....

It is analysed whether a system of private unemployment insurance is feasible, and if so, what specific features it should have. ...

In search of an efficient system of unemployment insurance the authors take a look at German history. ...

In Germany many recipients of benefits for the long-term unemployed (“Arbeitslosengeld II”) have little incentive to seek full-time...

According to the principle of "promoting and demanding", Hartz IV should help unemployed people to live without transfers as quickly...

Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment...