Consequently, unemployment protection tools should be designed to fulfil the twin objectives of labour market institutions, namely to protect structurally weak players and help the labour market to function efficiently. An analysis of 150 countries shows that just 22 offered unemployment insurance or assistance in 1949, but in the next four decades the number rose gradually to 38, consisting mostly of the 20 countries that founded the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (United States Social Security Administration, 1999, cited in Vroman and Brusentsev, 2005). Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union also implemented unemployment insurance or assistance systems.