Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a … country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent … features of the Belgian unemployment benefit system and proposes a number of policy recommendations that can help to make the …

setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates … combination of income support and incentives could be achieved through reforming both unemployment and in-work benefits. Reforming …