insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail …

federalism brought about by the post-1991 reforms, variations entry rates during the 1990s were explained largely by state level …

comprehensive set of institutional reforms. In this paper we present a theoretical and empirical framework to investigate how …

comprehensive set of institutional reforms. In this paper we present a theoretical and empirical framework to investigate how …

insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … negative short-run effects in "bad times". -- institutions ; reforms ; labor market ; macroeconomic conditions ; impulse …