unemployment insurance: private and public provision of employment insurance are substitutes. …We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we … rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in …

This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof …

future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates that …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …