Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in … Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated … parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a common technological shock …

the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe … often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

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 …

We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk …-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level … of the euro area member states' unemployment expenditures risk in the aftermath of the 2009 sovereign debt crisis if …