cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk … state can simultaneously cause an increase in unemployment and exports. …

While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

non-participation, as a distinct state from unemployment and employment, is determined by the welfare system in … such as education, skill degradation, age, labor market shocks, labor taxes, unemployment insurance benefits and social … assistance. We extend our framework by allowing for time-inconsistent choices and demonstrate the possibility of an unemployment …

-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies … whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive … the unemployment benefit entitlement system with monthly absence data for East and West Germany for the years 1991 …