We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment … benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates suggest that unemployment …

years in case of unfair dismissal. We show, relying on data, that this regulation entails a hike in severance payments at … the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

This study examines how the financial buffer of unemployed individuals affects the duration of their unemployment and … unemployment duration, which is consistent with the theory that individuals with financial buffers are able to search for new …

firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …