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

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker’s age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. The results indicate positive effects on the employment probability in regular employment for both women and men. …

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 … to provide positive search effort. It is used to restore or maintain some minimum exit rate to employment which increases …

job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less … more heterogeneous. Moreover, in this region, the threat induces women to substitute sickness for unemployment benefits. …

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

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 …