recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having …

recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

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 …