receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country’s exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk ofunskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … that unemployment has a negative effect on later labour market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars. …

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor … market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment … economic conditions. In addition, we provide some of the first evidence that the duration of UI affects a displaced individual …