This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …

It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences … explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these …

This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural … generate a lag between the introduction of unemployment insurance and a deterioration of the work ethic. Relying on a … calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As …

The paper analyses the performance of unemployment benefit systems in a search-theoretic framework. The criteria of …

flows out of claimant status, but, this paper concludes, not into employment. The movement out of claimant status was …

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use … administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from 1976 to 1984, and non-parametrically identify the …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

benefits and unemployment benefits, then we can capture some aspects of the overall pattern but still a lot remains unexplained …