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 …

and modes of job separation (economic redundancy, dismissal on personal grounds or resignation), and to cast light on the … (dismissal). Termination appears in all cases as a way to "exit", i.e. to escape the degradation of working conditions and the …

heterogeneity and the multiple destinations after unemployment (long-term jobs, short-term jobs and subsidised jobs). Moreover … towards the unemployment insurance. Controlling for unobservable heterogeneity and selection bias, the econometric results …

then used to explain the length of an individual unemployment spell. This flexible method of estimation accounts for both … censoring and selection bias, without constraining the shape of the hazard rate of leaving unemployment. Results from a 3 …,965 individuals French data set suggest that homeownership has a positive effect on unemployment duration. …