in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …

unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …

use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects ofdifferent labor market institutions on macroeconomic … negativeeffect on output volatility, while replacement rates have a positive effect, both of which are inline with theory. While …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipientsunder the Chilean program … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empiricallyinvestigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … find that for beneficiaries using theSF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …

. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment inthe last two decades in combination with a …

unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing … terms of marginal income taxation; both of them contributeto increase the marginal income tax rate implemented for the low …-ability type and decreasethe marginal income tax rate implemented for the high-ability type. The appearance ofequilibrium …

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …

. Those results are consistent with additional findings that higher unemployment rates at time of graduation significantly …

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