of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for in-voluntary unemployment, job search …

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …

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 …

most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …