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 …We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment …

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

met. I model monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework of Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), where job … government conditions the unemployment benefits. In the optimal monitoring scheme, endogenous sanctions and rewards, together … economy and find that the addition of optimal monitoring to the optimal unemployment insurance scheme decreases the variance …

Unemployment Accounts (UA) are mandatory individual saving accounts that can be used by governments as an alternative … to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. I study a two tier UA-UI system where the unemployed withdraw from their … unemployment account until it is exhausted and then receive unemployment benefits. The hybrid policy provides insurance to workers …

discussed in this paper: (i) the impact of unemployment insurance on the duration of unemployment spells; (ii) the impact of …A vast theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the effects of unemployment insurance benefits on the … unemployment benefits on the quality of post unemployment jobs; and (iii) the mechanisms available to improve the effectiveness of …

response to increased turbulence; overall the average duration of unemployment rises. Finally, we replicate the LS finding that …Australia has experienced a varied track record on unemployment. For the third quarter of the 20th century unemployment … averaged 2.0 per cent. This is bracketed by average unemployment rates of 8.6 and 7.4 per cent in the second and fourth quarter …

of unemployment in Chile. To carry out this purpose, a model Logit Binomial was estimated using information of the Survey … unemployment risk. In this context, it is necessary the intervention of the authority across incentives or forcing to the people to …

This paper examines the prospects for Australia meeting the Governments target to bring unemployment down to 5 per cent … by the year 2000. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the business cycle on unemployment. …

The aim of this paper is to study unemployment and job creation in the GCC countries. Population growth rates in all …, unemployment could reach 40% for youths aged between 20 and 24, and higher for women. Creating appropriate job opportunities for … nationals, and reducing current unemployment, is a critical focus of GCC governments. …

We revisit the signalling hypothesis, whereby potential employers use the duration of unemployment as a signal as to … unemployment benefits: individuals have good reasons to remain unemployed. Conversely, the signal becomes much more efficient once … benefits have elapsed: skilled workers should not stay unemployed in such cases. Therefore, the potential duration of …