In most OECD countries, unemployment benefits are tied to individual previous labor earnings. We study the … model with search unemployment. Employment varies endogenously on both the intensive margin and the extensive margins as …. Compared to the case of lump-sum unemployment compensation, a system of insurance payments that are related to past …

In most OECD countries, unemployment benefits are tied to individual previous labor earnings. We study the … model with search unemployment. Employment varies endogenously on both the intensive margin and the extensive margins as …. Compared to the case of lump-sum unemployment compensation, a system of insurance payments that are related to past …

In many OECD countries, e.g. in Germany, France, or the UK, unemploy-ment compensation consists of unemployment … insurance and unemployment assistance. Unemployment assistance is provided subsequent to the expiration of entitlement to … unemployment insurance and is lower. The effects of this two-tier unemployment compensation system are studied in a general …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. -- unemployment … ; search-matching equilibrium ; wage bargaining ; reductions of social security contributions ; unemployment insurance ; labor …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …