unemployment duration among UI claimants observed in these cases is due to the extended benefits or to the adverse labor market …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks …Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …

understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …This chapter, prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics, presents a comprehensive overview of how labor economists …

The adoption of emergency employment and short term training programs to provide income support to the population … affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the traditional, Labor Law-based income … support mechanisms in the region. These emergency programs are not additional and transitory, but rather have become a …

higher unemployment is caused by structural change in the labor market or whether the problem is cyclic determines how … debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of …Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but … had minimal effects on employment and earnings; these programs mainly induced the early exit of participants. The fourth …

institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within … mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social …

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 …

This paper demonstrates that factors which impede labour market adjustments can have first-order impacts on aggregate … 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 …

High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve … unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …