We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

We study the transition dynamics and welfare effects of reducing unemployment benefits in a Mortensen …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …

unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well …