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 investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The … transitory increase in UI is optimal; and that a policy rule contingent on the change in unemployment, rather than its level, is …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate … identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …

worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16-24 years old has a 0 ….14 percentage-point higher unemployment rate at ages 25-29 and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30-34. The persistence of this …

This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

pre-crisis period, are much more likely to lose their jobs and go on unemployment insurance after the crisis. These …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …