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It is analyzed whether the EU’s Eastern Enlargement has been an obstacle to further European integration. Does the Enlargement provoke protectionist policies in core member countries, such as Germany? The paper deals with the institutional settings...

The authors explain that historical experiences and recent international comparisons show how unemployment can be eliminated by making the labor market more flexible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The paper is about the economically efficient design of financial transfers to the unemployed in a highly industrialized country. There have been quite a few contributions to this problem – for example by Beenstock/Brasse, Feldstein/ Altman, Grubel,...