Abstract: With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the …

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 …

wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains unaffected|increases employment, reduces the equilibrium unemployment … of replacing employment taxes by payroll taxes increases employment and reduces the equilibrium unemployment rate, while …

most effective program to bring down unemployment.Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are not …

job.This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

The development of the unemployment rate di¤ers substantially between OECD countries.In this paper we investigate to …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …