at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical …-wide unemployment quality and quantity of labor supply. Cuts in social security contributions paid by employers and subsidies for hiring … long-term unemployed reduce unskilled unemployment most substantially. Tax cuts in the higher tax brackets boost the …

show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …

We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …

sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

from the Paycheck Protection Program and states with more generous unemployment insurance benefits had milder declines and …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …