Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated … parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a common technological shock …

unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health …

, which was particularly strong in the second half of the 90s, is a major aspect of the downward trends in unemployment and … and the unemployment rate, because a nonparticipant who wants to work has (i) a higher probability of entering the labor … force (compared to other nonparticipants), and (ii) a higher probability of joining unemployment conditional on entering the …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude. In the U.S., the vacancy-unemployment … vacancy-unemployment ratio and labor productivity have nearly the same variance. I establish this claim both using analytical … small movement along a downward sloping Beveridge curve (unemployment-vacancy locus). A shock to the job destruction rate …

a burst of layoffs. Unemployment rises because jobs are hard to find, not because an unusual number of people are thrown … into unemployment …

the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

instance in youth versus adult wages, helped limit U.S. unemployment, other aspects, for instance regional wage, show no …

of unemployment spell durations. A job search model that allows for recalls is shown to lead naturally to a competing … risks specification of the distribution of layoff unemployment spell durations in which recall and the taking of a new job … are alternate routes for leaving unemployment. A large sample of individual layoff unemployment spell observations derived …

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for … presents persuasive evidence of a tax effect on unemployment duration. The 1979 policy change is estimated to have reduced …