This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

This paper explores the rationale for unemployment benefits as a complement to optimal non-linear income taxation. High … higher unemployment risk, we find that there is a case for over-insuring the low-skilled, hence the unemployment benefits of …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are …