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. …

unemployment dynamics are very heterogeneous, even for such a homogeneous group.  We also show that the impact of cyclical … variables on individual unemployment probabilities differs widely across workers.  Some workers have unemployment dynamics that …

or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out.  This means that high rates …We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … datasets for a large cross-sector of developing and advanced countries.  Regressions of either private-sector employment rates …

response of employment to a technology shock. We find that labor market frictions account for the fall in labor inputs. …

.  Investment rises robustly soon after the news arrives, while GDP does not increase until after 5 years.  Employment rates fall …

Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid … curve of female employment by education levels. Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a …-domestic work (and are more likely to be `inactive`) than women in other cultural groups. Economic poverty causes employment to be …

evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … conclusions of the literature survey are indecisive. Conclusions about the efficacy of worksharing as an employment enhancing …