Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …

educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …