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< …

females are disadvantaged in the Serbian labor market in terms ofmoving out of the two undesirable states, unemployment and … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … gender earningsgap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment,and inactivity …

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination …