different productivities or skills, are employed by firms offering wages that depend both on the agents’ individual skill level … the future. Unemployment benefits do not only depend on an agent’s employment history, but also on the skills reported by …I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a …

wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

This paper analyses the factors determining reservation wages in Estonia, and estimates the influence of the …

This paper uses U.S. micro level data on employment durations to quantify the effect of potential Unemployment …

the economy by decreasing employment fluctuations where wages are flexible. If wages are rigid, buffer funding stabilises … employment when labour markets are unionised and the revenues of the firms are stochastic. We use the basic monopoly union … approach of wage and employment determination and assume that unemployment benefits are financed by employees’ UI contributions …

contrary, if mobility costs are low a static efficiency outweighs a dynamic costs associated to reallocation. Employment …