This paper analyzes unemployment insurance contracts that combine monetary benefits and training. Unemployment … during unemployment. Training counters the decrease in human capital, but also changes the willingness of the unemployed to … depreciation rate during unemployment …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of the unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …