worker across countries. This study examines the role that labour market features and institutions have in explaining … heterogeneity in workers' skills. I found that the unemployment rate together with the welfare losses that workers experiment after … factors alone is sufficient to build these barriers. The theory also suggests that welfare policies like the unemployment …

The paper investigates the working of the unemployment insurance and social assistance systems during Slovenia …'s transition, when both systems came under increased pressure. It describes unemployment insurance and social assistance programs …

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search …

In many search models of the labor market, unemployment insurance (UI) is conveniently interpreted as the value of …

This paper characterizes optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a model of equilibrium … unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recession. It offers a simple optimal UI formula that can be applied to a broad class of … equilibrium unemployment models. In addition to the usual statistics (risk aversion and micro-elasticity of unemployment with …

This paper analyzes optimal insurance against unemployment and disability in a private information economy with … unemployment, decreasing benefits are not necessarily optimal in this setting. The prevention constraint implies increasing … decreasing during unemployment. …

unemployment. Member States should continue along the line of reforms followed so far. The Commission has stressed the importance …