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

most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labour market policies (ALMP). In our … empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the …

. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates … with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates over the …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Employment protection is often related to costs incurred by firms when they fire a worker. The stability of the … employment relationship, enhanced by employment protection, is also favourable to the productivity of the job. We analyse … employment protection focusing on this trade-off between adjustment costs and productivity. We show that from a welfare point of …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … originates from the increased effectiveness of labour supply. We advocate that for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro-effects concerning the behaviour of …

This Paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set … that discourage the unemployed from risking benefit sanctions (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter … outflow from unemployment. …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia’s unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job. …

This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …