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European unemployment insurance: Economic stability without major redistribution of household incomes

Depending on how it is structured, the introduction of a European unemployment insurance within the euro area could make a significant contribution to stabilizing economic developments. This even applies to a relatively small-scale system (based on the volume of transfers) with a maximum eligibility period of six months and transfers of 30 percent of last net salary. Higher payments would amplify the stabilizing effect but, conversely, also increase the potentially undesirable impact on incentives to work and degree of redistribution among member states. The distributive effects on households would be marginal; effects on income distribution in the Monetary Union would generally be slightly progressive to neutral. Low-income households therefore stand to gain relatively more from the introduction of a European unemployment insurance.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: DIW Economic Bulletin ; ISSN: 2192-7219 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 10 ; Pages: 39-50 ; Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Thema
economic stabilization
European integration
unemployment insurance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fichtner, Ferdinand
Haan, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Beteiligte

  • Fichtner, Ferdinand
  • Haan, Peter
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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