This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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 …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

structural unemployment is concerned, the latter increases only with the degree of countries' specialization on capital … intensively manufactured products in inter-industry trade relations. Only for unemployment of the less-skilled, a significant … impact of superior vertical intra-industry trade seems to exist. However, the link between unemployment of the lower …