employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. … und Lohn-bedingten Arbeitslosigkeit in Frage stellen. Es deutet vielmehr einiges darauf hin, dass die hohe …

be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U … system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …

This paper considers the design of optimal unemployment insurance with multiple types of job. The environment is an … displays benefit� decreasing over the length of the unemployment spell. The wage tax after reemployment depends on the length … of unemployment spell. …

Using panel data of public unemployment expenditure as a percentage of GDP of 34 OECD nations across year 1980-2010, I … explore the effect of this ratio on three unemployment outcomes: total unemployment rate, long-term unemployment rate and … youth unemployment, as well as labor participation rate and investment rate. After taking into account potential endogeneity …

economy, designing unemployment insurance payments conditional on the business cycle could be valuable. This paper answers a …

unemployed. Starting from this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should take the individual financial … situation into account. We use a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system, individual … unemployment benefits that increase with individual assets. By implicitly raising interest rates, asset-increasing benefits …

We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment … hazard models and assess what variables are important in determining unemployment duration. Our findings suggest that even … reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …

unemployment insurance systems in Germany regardless of their country of origin and age-at-entry. Moreover, the magnitudes of the …