unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced …By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … unemployment of unskilled labour due to one of the import-competing sectors shutting down as it fails to cope up with the import … adverse employment effect. Our findings add to the growing body of literature that challenges conventional wisdom about labour …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

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 …

This paper considers the role of flexicurity when jobs must be reallocated from a declining, traditional sector to a … accept a less demanding traditional job. Unemployment arises from job separation in the declining sector and difficulties in … retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …

We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration …, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that … emanate from employment protection, followed by union density. While some labor market institutions mitigate the …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …