suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- Uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …