This book examines unemployment insurance policy through a survey, taking stock of the theoretical work in the field of labor economics. It closely follows and assesses developments in the modelling of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policies, beginning with the initial analytical findings...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The starting points -- Chapter 3. The optimal level of unemployment insurance -- Chapter 4. The optimal time profile of UI policy -- Chapter 5. Unemployment insurance over the business cycles -- Chapter 6. Some further notes on the role of a UI system --...