We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

The federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI) in the United States was established by the Social Security Act … the aim of revealing lessons for a possible European unemployment benefit system (EUBS). We examine areas of federal … institutional moral hazard in a multi-tiered UI system, and give examples of monitoring methods and incentives to ameliorate such …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in … OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across … countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits determine what claimants need to do to successfully …

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …