According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment …

unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …

positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …

This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment... …