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 …

We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment … hazard models and assess what variables are important in determining unemployment duration. Our findings suggest that even … reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …

This paper considers the problem of optimal unemployment insurance in a moral hazard framework. Unlike existing … prescribes no participation in the hidden labor market and a decreasing sequence of unemployment payments until the lower bound … for promised utility is reached. At that moment, participation jumps and unemployment payments drop down to zero. For the …

unemployment. Member States should continue along the line of reforms followed so far. The Commission has stressed the importance …

unemployment insurance systems in Germany regardless of their country of origin and age-at-entry. Moreover, the magnitudes of the …

A new Unemployment Insurance System based on individual accounts was launched in Chile on October 2002. One of the most …

stigma of unemployment. …