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 … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate … identify potential areas of future research. -- unemployment insurance ; unemployment dynamics ; job search ; labor market …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic … between size and unemployment. Using data from 37 countries, 15 continents and trade areas as well as 496 federal states, we … will demonstrate that larger economic regions tend to have higher unemployment rates. Subsequently, we show that this …

This paper presents large-sample evidence that firms consider labor unemployment risk when setting their resource …' deliberate adjustment to committed resources in the existence of adjustment costs. We argue that workers' unemployment costs … that state unemployment insurance benefits offset the costs borne by involuntarily displaced workers, the generosity of …

This paper examines the effect of labor unemployment risk on firm risk. Using unemployment insurance benefits as a … proxy for unemployment risk, we find an economically significant positive relation between unemployment risk and firm risk …

This paper describes our new dataset on conditionality requirements for unemployment benefit claimants. Even though the …