Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

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

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. Numerical …

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …

, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries - faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …

unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these … countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self …-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by …