increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …

education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …

This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program …

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

, such as unemployment insurance benefits, parental benefits, a fully funded pension scheme together with earnings … or increase labour effort, affecting people both with low and high earnings. In case of unemployment benefits and early … long-term unemployment and it is vital that they are encouraged to return to the labour market. -- Labour supply incentives …