function of the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, and the percent of the population filing a schedule C on their federal …

What explains poverty of Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia? One view holds the disease environment of these regions as … economic performance of countries. Disease does not play a significant role in determining outcomes. On the contrary, we find … support for the indirect effect of disease via institutions, as asserted by the 'institutions school'. Interestingly, the …

What explains poverty of Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia? One view holds the disease environment of these regions as … economic performance of countries. Disease does not play a significant role in determining outcomes. On the contrary, we find … support for the indirect effect of disease via institutions, as asserted by the 'institutions school'. Interestingly, the …

how well-intentioned public policy may contribute to disease instability and uncertainty. …

household also affects disease prevalence among the male populations. The amount of land possessed by a household affects the … disease prevalence among rural OA only. In the case of disabilities, age and economic dependency of the OAs have significant …

This paper considers the design of optimal unemployment insurance with multiple types of job. The environment is an … displays benefit� decreasing over the length of the unemployment spell. The wage tax after reemployment depends on the length … of unemployment spell. …

Using panel data of public unemployment expenditure as a percentage of GDP of 34 OECD nations across year 1980-2010, I … explore the effect of this ratio on three unemployment outcomes: total unemployment rate, long-term unemployment rate and … youth unemployment, as well as labor participation rate and investment rate. After taking into account potential endogeneity …

economy, designing unemployment insurance payments conditional on the business cycle could be valuable. This paper answers a …

unemployed. Starting from this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should take the individual financial … situation into account. We use a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system, individual … unemployment benefits that increase with individual assets. By implicitly raising interest rates, asset-increasing benefits …