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. …

This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the … labour market in the midst of a lockdown. Our estimation results suggest short-term effects of lockdowns on employment … hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after entering the labour market and the 2020 cohort graduated and entered the …

transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …

We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …

Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in … inevitabletradeoff between greater employment but at the sacrifice of lower wages on theone hand, versus the maintenance of wages and …

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment …

increase in the pace of job creation and destruction may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment;the effects … sensitivity analysis using an empirical model of labour market flows shows thatthe congestion in the matching process due to the … depend very much on the initial pace of labour market dynamics and they are larger when the initial pace is low;the economy …