educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment … and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …

destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

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 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 …