mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is … lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment … benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played different roles in both countries …

The administration of benefits is a relatively neglected aspect of the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to employment and to other destinations – at various durations of … unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers. …

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of … unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi …-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is found to rise by between four and eleven percentage points due to the new law. The …

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL … the strictness of EPL, the generosity of UBs and the amount of redistribution involved by the financing of unemployment …