We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

unemployment that is in line with other emerging markets and regional peers. We also find that the relationship has been somewhat … components of GDP may cause different unemployment reactions, an important issue that has not been sufficiently addressed in the …

overall unemployment and a large share of the long-term unemployed are serious concerns. …

Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …

Reducing rigidity in labor markets is key to lowering unemployment. Theoretical models suggest that the impact of such … especially for changes in employment protection and the unemployment benefit system the impact on unemployment is mixed across …

growth and unemployment in Mexico during the period 2000Q2-2018Q4. The results show that tourism growth is a palliative for … unemployment, whereas unemployment reduces the growth of the tourism sector. The results also show that the relationship between …

The focus of our study is on determining whether unemployment rates in 8 New Industrialized Economies conform to the … findings and confirms hysteresis in all unemployment rates except for Asian economies/countries of Thailand and the Philippines. …