The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation trade-off and for the conduct of monetary policy. We proceed in two steps. We first leave … unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage setting mechanisms …