The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …

This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using … the comprehensive IAB-employment sample 1975-1997. It becomes apparent that 57% of the considered sanctions last for less … the unemployed. From these results it is questionable whether the current activation policy for unemployed in Germany …

unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of …

The paper is about the economically efficient design of financial transfers to the unemployed in a highly …/ Altman, Grubel, Orzag/Snower - which are presented and discussed. It turns out that a true unemployment insurance would be … against such a solution. For example, insurability is often denied on the ground that an unemployment insurance would be too …