at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …. While job search theory predicts a shift in individuals' search effort from local to distant labour markets, consequences …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …

unemployment benefit because an increase in the latter induce firms to create less jobs, which, in turn, reduces the competition in … away from jobs, have higher unemployment rates and lower wages. This is because the housing market amplifies the negative …

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on … exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and … decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in the formal sector come with unemployment benefits. After incorporating …

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use … administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from the late 1970s to 1984, and non …

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 … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …