We study the role of preferences in the process of unemployment benefit determination. Perhaps surprisingly, survey … evidence for the UK suggests that both the employed and unemployed wish to see a more generous level of unemployment benefits. …

We present a simple model where unemployment benefits are determined in an economy in which there is endogenous delay … in finding a job so that workers desire insurance against the possibility of unemployment. …

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor … contribute robust and well defined impacts on unemployment within increasingly sophisticated multivariate literature. Our own …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

South Africa’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …