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

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

Using a random sample of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) applicants from 2002-09, we find that unemployment duration …, suggesting job search is a nonstationary process characterized by declining welfare even in the very early stages of unemployment … cause than for those who voluntarily quit. These differential effects suggest that unemployment may exacerbate the earnings …

disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will …

rating in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance system, the reserve ratio and the benefit ratio methods. Differences in layoff …

marginal cost of suppliers. The leading example is the electricity industry, where there is a capacity market clearing before … the spot market. -- capacity market ; procurement auction ; electricity market ; competitive equilibrium …