Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and … reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about …

the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level …

unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these … countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self …-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by …

for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search …

The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance … – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a … insurance. The paper also argues that the distinction between unemployment and disability is blurred, and that both temporary …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

resources and function inefficiently. Local labour offices have limited incentives to adopt best practices; the government plans …