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 …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal … thus provides incentives for costly self-insurance against unemployment risk through education, mitigating the moral hazard …. Low employment protection encourages costly education efforts to access high productivity and high innovation sectors …

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 …

While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …