We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor … market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment …

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 …

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

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

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

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from …

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by … schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector participation changes over the duration of unemployment, in turn … analysis identifies scope for reallocation of resources towards less generous programmes within unemployment protection, which …