The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits into employment subsidies--quot;benefit transfersquot; for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are … unemployment after the Great Recession …

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have … unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax that finances it. Experience rating in unemployment insurance presents …

To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are … unemployment in the wake of the Great Recession. …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …