improve employment incentives without significant changes in the current redistribution scheme. We provide a detailed account …Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung …. Wir stellen detailliert dar, wie ein solches System von Beschäftigungskonten in Deutschland ausgestaltet und implementiert …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …

model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

unemployment insurance (UI) work test on long-term employment outcomes. Adding administrative wage records to the Washington … Alternative Work Search (WAWS) experiment, we examine effects on earnings, hours worked, employment, and job match quality in the …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … evidence for whether an intended positive effect of benefit sanctions on employment entry of welfare recipients has been bought … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …