The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

-state unemployment rate. We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals …-state unemployment rate between 20% and 50%; (ii) surprisingly, most of the increase is due to an increase in the inflow into … unemployment, whereas the decrease in the outflow from unemployment is modest; (iii) the effects are stronger for women than for …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …

may have increased unemployment. It is shown that it is likely to be so if they are associated with an increase in the …

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment … and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …

model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costsmay even reduce temporary work agency employment if …-term employment arrangements. -- employment protection ; temporary work agencies ; search and matching models ; unemployment …

-skilled non employed workers, when their employability decreases as the unemployment spell lengthens. We show that the unemployed … minimum length of the unemployment spell. However, workers should be recruited before they become discouraged and stop … searching. We also show that for broad range of the parameters the optimal income support scheme takes the form of unemployment …

sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …