unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job … search, more so in a world where job status is socially important. Thus prosperity and unemployment may go hand in hand … independent of the standard income effect. The paper shows that measured unemployment always may have a voluntary component. In …

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 …

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 …

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. -- Outsourcing ; unemployment ; social insurance …

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more … voluntary Danish system to explore the structure of unemployment insurance demand. The insurance take-up rate is surprisingly …