Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …

This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

. The country's real GDP growth reached 5½ percent a year on average, unemployment declined, and macroeconomic indicators …