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 …

This study was conducted by examining the interrelationships between Corruption, Human Resources, and Unemployment in … study aims to examine the relationship that exists between Corruption, Human Resources, and Unemployment so as to provide …, and Unemployment. Our conclusions indicate that corruption makes a considerable contribution to the growth and progress of …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …

study the disincentive effect of unemployment insurance on (formal) reemployment in Brazil, and show that our bounds remain …

unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed’s expectations of being stigmatized (stigma …