In this paper, the authors incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-conomic equilibrium. …

Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …

Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …

in this country. We argue that, due to such regulation, the French economy is locked at a high unemployment trap with low …

the paper determines the equilibrium levels of the bargained wage, employment, unemployment, discouraged workers and non …

institutions and show that the results are consistent with this view. …

States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

This paper addresses two questions in regard to Australia's unemployment policies over the last decade: the extent to … has meant that strong GDP growth has not been translated into reductions in unemployment. …