Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …

unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve …

-lasting wage declines and their cyclicality are changes in employer characteristics, as displaced workers switch to lower …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non …

income support system centered on unemployment insurance and complemented with additional mechanisms to provide effective … and better designed mechanism to protect workers against the effects of macroeconomic volatility. The paper argues for an … income support to workers during normal times, and discusses what changes are necessary in the emergency programs to make …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

work norms. While the buffering effect of unemployment insurance remains, the spillover effects of paternal unemployment … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …

, unemployment insurance is an essential tool to foster and smooth career paths. Its core components comprise unemployment benefits … risks properly. To deal with this issue, part-time unemployment insurance, short-time work and wage insurance have been … paid to full-time unemployed workers, monitoring, and counseling. But it is clear that they are not sufficient to cover all …