(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

In this paper, we investigate the causes and consequences of "unclaimed" unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A search … collecting, with improper denials accounting for 8% of the total cost. The endogenous collection costs imply the unemployment … net of vacancy costs. Moreover, this change has minimal impact on the unemployment rate. …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

This paper introduces endogenous on-the-job training in the job creation and destruction model of the search and …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …