decline in the unemployment rate can be attributed to the increase in the labor force, while the number of job seekers remains …, which lowers the markup by 3 percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.1 and 0.05 percentage point …

At the end of working life, as well as reducing unemployment benefits, the unemployment-insurance agency could apply …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment …

Degressivity of unemployment benefits is a major feature of social protection in most industrialised countries: the … the unemployment spell. Moreover degressivity of unemployment benefits has significant distributive effects as the risk of … long-term unemployment varies from one individual to another. This paper proposes a formal model of political support for …

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 …

labour market institutions (Social Dialogue, Employment Protection Legislation, Unemployment Insurance and Employment …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … dependent on the length of the unemployment spell. We show that this device performs better than a wage tax after re …

Schröder government's second term of office, which was marked by major reforms in the fields of unemployment insurance and … less pronounced. We further show that discontent grew stronger among occupations where the risk of unemployment was more … prevalent. This suggests that opposition to specific measures that weakened status-securing principles of the unemployment …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … dependent on the length of the unemployment spell. We show that this device performs better than a wage tax after re …

. In a fi…rst-best allocation of resources, unemployment benefi…ts should provide perfect insurance against the … unemployment risk, layoff taxes are necessary to induce employers to internalize the cost of dismissing an employee but should not … approximately equal to zero. I obtain an optimal rate of unemployment which is, in general, different from the output maximizing …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … dependent on the length of the unemployment spell. We show that this device performs better than a wage tax after re …