little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

progressivity acts on unemployment and can moderate the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We finally provide numerical …

In November 2005, the Hungarian government frontloaded the unemployment benefit path, while kept constant the total … benefit amount that could be collected over the unemployment spell. We estimate the effect of this reform on non …

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …

how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the ….S. states, including many that experience unemployment during the transition. However, nominal rigidities reduce the overall U …