and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …

The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the … to explain the differences in unemployment rates. …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme … into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined … unemployment matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. We build a first model with such complex characteristics …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively … related to young workers’ unemployment rates while they have no effect on adults. Conversely changes in the skill structure …