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 …

and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates … combination of income support and incentives could be achieved through reforming both unemployment and in-work benefits. Reforming …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated … heterogeneity. This exercise suggests that extending the current U.S. unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with …