the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-time employment. We …

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 …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … effect. We find evidence that the unemployed with higher pre-unemployment earnings are more likely to enter full …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

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 …