, unemployment insurance is an essential tool to foster and smooth career paths. Its core components comprise unemployment benefits …

optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in labor cost triggered by the hiring credit, we estimate a structural … a large extent on three features: it was non-anticipated, temporary and targeted at jobs with rigid wages. We estimate … flexible wages would have been much higher. …

reductions), partial unemployment insurance (enabling workers to combine unemployment benefits with low income jobs), and wage … and compared to those of standard unemployment benefits. Next the main results of the empirical literature on the effects …

, 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 … experience rating is absent from the unemployment compensation systems of other OECD countries, where benefits are usually …