The paper deals with the potential offshorability of German jobs of different occupational profiles, qualifications and income levels....

The author discusses the question how approaches of a national minimum wage are compatible with the collective bargaining autonomy...

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

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS has done nothing to prevent...

There is a growing body of literature on the impact of the Internet as an innovative transaction and networking technique on...

Interview with Bas van Abel, Founder and CEO of Fairphone B.V., at the Kiel Institute. ...

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

There is a growing body of literature on the impact of the Internet as an innovative transaction and networking technique on...

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

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

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

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

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