This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a … country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent … features of the Belgian unemployment benefit system and proposes a number of policy recommendations that can help to make the …

Policies and programs designed to protect workers may, paradoxically, have a negative impact on labor as a whole by … 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 …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …