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 …

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 ofunskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative …This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is … role of job search assistance is to delay or prevent situations in which it is no longer optimal to incentivize the worker …

large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … unemployment has a negative effect on later labor market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the literature … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an … show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job …

regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search …This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by … engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised … schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector participation changes over the duration of unemployment, in turn …