and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …This paper discusses the sensitivity of the labor market outcome in the standard bargaining paradigms - monopoly union …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well …

and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on the one hand, and Unemployment …

and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance …

work on unemployment insurance (UI) and workers' compensation (WC) insurance finds that the programs tend to increase the … the incidence and duration of claims are close to 1.0 for unemployment insurance and between 0.5 and 1.0 for workers …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …