unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …

firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …