shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area. …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …

to set up EU- or Eurozone wide unemployment provisions where resources are transferred to areas particularly hit by …

unions run unemployment insurance (UI) through government-subsidized UI funds. This sytem is practiced in four Nordic …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …