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 …

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 …

We propose a multi-country model with occupational choice, heterogeneous firms, unemployment, and revenue … tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …

We explore the effect of various factors on interstate differences in weekly unemployment insurance claims, focusing … (CARES) legislation, and the nature of state economies. We find that during the initial weeks of the pandemic, unemployment … experienced greater weekly unemployment claims. We find mixed evidence that unemployment benefits affect the number of …

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 …

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 …

income support system centered on unemployment insurance and complemented with additional mechanisms to provide effective …