Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …. We conclude that the spike in the job finding rate suggests that workers exploit unemployment insurance benefits for …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rates do not …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is … specified in which the psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The analysis reveals social … multiplier effects, and shows that multiple unemployment equilibria may emerge. Data on all 20- to 24-year-olds living in …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …

-skilled workers. The stylized facts are that profits are concentrated among the high-skilled, involuntary unemployment is mostly among … the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance is missing. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of redistribution …