reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

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

The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically …