Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated … parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a common technological shock …

This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment … larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then develops a model of capital accumulation, unemployment and factor prices …. Using this model to look at the data, it reaches two main conclusions: The initial increase in unemployment, from the mid …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

Many Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients do not find new jobs before exhausting their benefits, even when benefits …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …