Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Versus Expenditures for Active Labor Market Politics in German Cover Image

Fiskalne koszty bezrobocia a wydatki na aktywną politykę rynku pracy w Niemczech
Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Versus Expenditures for Active Labor Market Politics in German

Author(s): Krzysztof Nyklewicz
Subject(s): National Economy, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: employment; costs; labor market; Germany

Summary/Abstract: The fiscal costs of unemployment are on one hand generally occurring public expenditures contributing to the counteracting of unemployment, and on the other hand lost revenues that the state could receive from the work of unemployed people. They are closely linked to the expenditures for the active labor market politics as the second ones can concur to the termination or the avoidance of unemployment. Based on the generally accepted classification the costs of the active labor market politics are excluded from the fiscal costs of unemployment, but partly they are refinanced by savings achieved within the financing of unemployment. In Germany the costs of unemployment burden the federal budget, the state budgets and commune budgets as well as the budget of the Federal Employment Agency.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 103
  • Page Range: 235-249
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish