models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …