Arbeitspapier
Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced-budget interpersonal redistributions among the UAs. At the end of their working lives, people could transfer the remaining balances on their UAs into their pensions. We present an analytical framework to analyse the incentive e.ects of UAs and calibrate our 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 unemployed.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1274
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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Unemployment accounts
Redistribution
Employment
Unemployment
Unemployment benefits
Arbeitslosenversicherung
Reform
Vermögensbildung
Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
Arbeitsangebot
Ökonomischer Anreiz
Theorie
Beschäftigungseffekt
Belgien
Frankreich
Deutschland
Italien
Spanien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Brown, Alessio J. G.
Orszag, Jonathan Michael
Snower, Dennis J.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
- (wo)
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Kiel
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Brown, Alessio J. G.
- Orszag, Jonathan Michael
- Snower, Dennis J.
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Entstanden
- 2006
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