Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious … economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a … historical approach was used which viewed unemployment as consisting of two parts: a cyclical component and an underlying …

unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment services based on the predicted duration of their UI claim. We place …

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme … into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined … unemployment matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. We build a first model with such complex characteristics …

empresas ; We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasiexperimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …

Wechselverhältnis gilt als Geheimnis des dänischen Erfolges, Arbeitslosigkeit zu senken und Haushaltsüberschüsse zu generieren ohne … Instrumente einer aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik eingeführt, die in die Tradition eines umfassenden Systems sozialer Sicherung … labour market which helped to prevent major welfare cut backs while diminishing unemployment and producing a budget surplus …

four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … sentences. For example, wage subsidies reduce unemployment, the crime rates of employed and unemployed workers, and improve …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …