impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … raise their hiring and promotion standards for permanent jobs. Both of these mechanisms predict higher levels of job content … in permanent than in temporary jobs; further, it is predicted that stricter EPL increases the gap in job content between …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have … unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax that finances it. Experience rating in unemployment insurance presents …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … transition rate into work and that such accepted jobs go along with lower wages. We also find a positive effect of a vacancy …

should be exclusively targeted at unemployed workers with low initial exit rates to employment. For all other workers, they … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

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 …

In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving … benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and abroad. For the analysis we use data on recent labour immigrants to The …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross …, we find no statistically significant impact of increasing UI generosity on aggregate employment. Our point estimates are … uniformly small in magnitude, and the most precise estimates rule out employment-to-population ratio reductions in excess of 0 …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining employment, (ii) incentives for creating employment, (iii) incentives for …, when and to what extent specific ALMPs are effective. In particular, the paper shows that ALMPs retaining employment, like … employment, like hiring subsidies, perform much better on cost-effectiveness and strengthen the outsiders' position in the labor …