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...

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

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

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...

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

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

The authors calculate the statistic fundamentals of a dual system of private unemployment insurance, using data of the year 2000. ...

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

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

We study the local welfare effects of large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa using a theoretical model that...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 119: The paper is motivated by the planned reduction of the rate of contributions to German unemployment...

The world is economically integrated, but socially fragmented. Thus economic progress can become decoupled from social progress. The...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 85: In their paper the authors Andreas Friedl, Dennis Görlich, Sebastian Horn, Christiane Krieger-Boden and...

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that...