Kiel Policy Brief No. 129: Despite the gloomy economic outlook for Germany, the Federal Employment Agency will continue to generate surpluses in 2019 and 2020.

Recipients of the means-tested unemployment benefits II face high (explicit and implicit) tax rates if they start working or increase work efforts.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 124: The Federal Labor Agency will achieve a budget surplus in 2019 as well as in 2020 – despite of the decrease of the rate of contributions to unemployment insurance in January 2019.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 119: The paper is motivated by the planned reduction of the rate of contributions to German unemployment insurance from 3.0 to 2.5 percent becoming effective in January 2019.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 115: In this paper it is explained why the rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced from 3.0 to 2.4 percent immediately.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 114: The rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced immediately from 3 to 2.5 percent. The increase of employment would be fostered.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 104: In Germany, the system of unemployment insurance has been in surplus since 2011. The reserves amounted to Euro 11 bn in the end of 2016. Only a small pa

Kiel Policy Brief No. 97: The unemployment insurance system in Germany will realize large surpluses in 2015 and 2016 according to a forecast by the Kiel economist Alfred Boss in

Kiel Policy Brief No. 91: The surplus of the social security system in Germany will continue to decline in 2015 and in 2016 despite of the favourable economic development, according to a forecast by the Kiel economist Alfred Boss.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 86: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Alfred Boss concludes that due to specific rules in the German system of social insurance the introduction of the minimum wage may lead to net wage loss.