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 …

that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …

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 …

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 …

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

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 helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …

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 …