of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …