We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … problem in Bolivia's labor market, as the non-salaried market is always an alternative. While unemployment durations and … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …

, our welfare analysis of fiscal alternatives shows that the young prefer increases in unemployment transfers as this …

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 provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …