unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

period than any previously used. We find that the difference between unemployment and the NAIRU is a significant determinant …

This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those … experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment regions are those with higher inflow rates to … unemployment rather than longer spells of unemployment. These findings suggest that regional unemployment varies importantly with …