"This book proposes options and recommendations for comprehensive reform of the unemployment insurance program that was initiated as a social insurance program by the Social Security Act of 1935. It documents the development of the program and its decline since the 1970s. Reform proposals and...

This paper evaluates two hypothetical budget-neutral reforms that shift resources from family tax expenditures to family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD model and EUSILC data. We find that both reforms have an...

Die Hauptbotschaft dieses Buches lautet, dass die Ursachen unserer wirtschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Schwierigkeiten aus unterschiedlichen, voneinander weitgehend unabhängigen Veränderungen stammen. Demzufolge wird der angemahnte Umbau des Sozialstaates auch nicht durch eine Reform aus...