This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … originates from the increased effectiveness of labor supply. We advocate that for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed …

identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also …