We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

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 …

I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …

two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against … unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical properties of aggregate employment and participation. As in the US data, the … household against unemployment risks. …