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

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

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 …

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as … capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …

The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …