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Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy
An International Comparison of Financing Systems

Günther Schmid, Bernd Reissert, and Gert Bruche 		This volume examines the impact that the financing and administration systems of labor market policy have on the design of national policies concerning the unemployed. The authors investigated labor market policy in six countries
—Austria, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States—and determined that the distribution of responsibility for labor market programs, the financing of these programs, and the procedures for determining issues and expenditures differ markedly from country to country.
The authors explore how the same economic causes can have very different labor market effects because of institutional factors such as the job-seeking behavior of the unemployed, the hiring practices of firms, and the employment policies of different levels of government.		 I. Introduction

II. The Financing and Effectiveness of Unemployment Insurance

III. The Financing and Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policy

IV. Summary and Conclusions
 
Labor Economics and Policy Series

$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2314-6

316 pages

1992