This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on …

firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …

. Adjustment costs of changing benefits can introduce hysteresis in benefit setting and unemployment. Both (very) bad and good … unemployment benefits in response to an unemployment shock in a simple, reduced-form model of the labor market. It is found that … temporary shocks (including monetary) can permanently reduce unemployment benefits and the unemployment rate. A desirable …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions … job search incentives and thus gross unemployment. We analyse the optimal design of the unemployment insurance system …

Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions … job search incentives and thus gross unemployment. We analyse the optimal design of the unemployment insurance system …

quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …