unemployment – low labor demand environment and to evaluate the impact of active labor market policy programs on outflows from … unemployment. Results suggest that the hiring process is driven by a stock-flow rather than by a traditional matching function: the … of outflows from unemployment to employment, while stock of vacancies and inflow of unemployed do not play any …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping …

This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and … unemployment but results in losses to females in terms of lower wages and higher unemployment. The benefit to males provides an …

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment … insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

Extended unemployment benefits programs in the US are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate … extended unemployment benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect … job hazard, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number …

reservation wage on unemployment duration. According to estimations there is no statistically significant effect of unemployment … unemployment benefit or social assistance increases the duration of the unemployment period, which indicates the lower offer …

The system of Unemployment Insurance (UI) financing in the US draws its funds from a payroll tax on employers and … measures the effect of the UI financing system on the duration of unemployment. Using duration data is essential since tax … charges to the firm vary over the duration of unemployment spells. Empirical results based on data with various sources of …

I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a … during unemployment due to depreciation of skills and increases on the job because of learning by doing. Any insurance … contract, periods of unemployment are characterised by declining benefits. Agents are further punished for long unemployment by …

In this study, the Hysteresis Hypothesis that assumes the natural rate of unemployment follows the last period …’s realised unemployment was examined for the Turkish case by using annual data for the period of 1950-1995. The technique used in …