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 …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …

This paper studies the welfare effects associated with the provision of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits when …

public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …

increase in a state-industry’s monthly unemployment rate. The effect is amplified in industries employing a larger fraction of … charges increases by more than 30% in response to a 50% cut to North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program following …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We … increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that eligible men are … increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock while …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which … propose a reform that is explicitly guided by economic principles. -- flexicurity ; employment protection ; unemployment …

accept a less demanding traditional job. Unemployment arises from job separation in the declining sector and difficulties in …) a wage subsidy to re-employed workers; (iii) unemployment insurance; (iv) moderate job protection; and (v) active labor …

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …