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 …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. In this paper, we use a new set of yearly panel data from a … large number of countries to evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and job reallocation …

survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations …

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 …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …

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

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 and social factors are important determinants of … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

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 …