in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one American steadystate featuring low unemployment …, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour … problem of persistent unemployment. …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

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 …

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 …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …