sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …

special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability … substantially across the three countries considered, the linkages between job search, on the one hand, and education, gender, age or …

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 …

rate is endogenous, the job matching process consists of three rounds. In the first and the second respectively the short … Trennungsrate des Modells ist endogen, der Matching Prozeß umfasst drei Phasen. In der ersten und zweiten suchen jeweils die …

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through … in matching models, according to which search intensity is always too low if not efficient. Eventually, in the presence … of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …