unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

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. …

likely to exist also in other countries. -- unemployment ; optimal unemployment insurance ; liquidity constraints ; mental …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …’s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …