. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …

EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …

stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training …