A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50 … unemployment benefits are the only government spending activity. In this paper I show that recommendations for optimal UI levels …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …

telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …

-experiments are not necessarily robust to signaling. Our instrumental variable estimation finds returns to schooling very similar to …

types of labour mobility across space (by destination) and time (by duration). …

stability, while others experience crises in shorter intervals. To this end, we analyze the duration of stability periods …