We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from recent OECD …