Unemployment insurance experience rating imposes higher payroll tax rates on firms that have laid off more workers in … unemployment with heterogeneous firms and realistic UI financing. The model predicts that higher experience rating reduces both job ….4%. While the unemployment rate falls on average by .21 percentage points, the effect on tax revenues is ambiguous. The model …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …

and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives …

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 …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

wage effects and the response of unemployment to changes in unemployment benefits. The model estimates that the costs of … important policy implications. Because changes to unemployment benefits affect sectors differently, these changes impact the …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which … decrease in the number of days in unemployment benefits and increase in the number of days in employment. However, they also …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …