In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can … explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we … unemployment among unskilled workers …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical … analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to … employers as a screening device when hiring from the unemployment pool. …

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

German unemployment insurance system to estimate how the dynamics of search effort respond to caseworker meetings and vacancy …

In response to the 2007-09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

In response to the 2007 - 09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

Should unemployment benefits be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate, or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining benefit sequence over the spell of unemployment. Numerical calibrations of the …