We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … facilitate a balancing of the budget has strong adverse effects on unemployment and real GDP. …