Is unemployment uninsurable? Employers and the development of unemployment insurance

Article Abstract:

Shifts in preferences of employers during the Weimar period were largely influenced by changes in the balance of power among German employers who underwent a shift in concentration from traditional industries to those that are more skill-intensive. These attitude changes, that is, from non-support of any system of compensation against the effects of unemployment to full support of a system of contributory unemployment insurance, were likewise influenced by increased exposure to competition in the global market. Ability to exercise control was also a crucial factor.

Social aspects, Unemployment insurance

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Institutional sources of German monetary policy dynamics

Article Abstract:

The institutional structure of German policy-making is the reason behind the patterns of policy dynamics which are influenced by who has a say and the implications of what they say. These institutions and their mandates determine German monetary and regime policy simply by the way they either enhance or block economic opportunities for policy actors to achieve the desired policy. These same institutions provide the rationale for continuity in German monetary policy and the opposite in German policy toward European monetary regimes.

Fiscal policy

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Welfare over time: three worlds of welfare capitalism in panel perspective

Article Abstract:

A study of the German, Dutch, and American welfare states reveals that the corporatist and social democratic welfare states undertake substantial income redistribution to alleviate poverty and inequality and that the effects are greater over five years than one. The American or liberal welfare state held the opposite finding. However, there is sufficient evidence of efficiency losses in the Dutch welfare state where fewer people appear to escape poverty through labor markets.

United States, Netherlands, Welfare state, Liberalism

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