This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

This paper describes an equilibrium labour market in which an unemployment benefit system cannot raise the average … unemployment is high, but pays much lower rates in booms. By targeting unemployment compensation to recessions, when being … substantially reduces average unemployment. …

fill jobs. Moreover, unemployment rates are higher in industries which use employee referrals more extensively. This paper … search is, however, not necessarily efficient. Congestion externalities in referral search imply that unemployment would be …

much more efficient than the private agency. Moreover, the level of the unemployment benefits is a disincentive to manage … agency to manage a worker having some low probabilities to exit from unemployment. If these conditions are satisfied, the … existence of private employment agencies improves the labor market through shorter unemployment spells and a lower unemployment …

circumstances. I examine what we know about displacement and its consequences, and assess policies designed to assist workers … adversely affected by economic change. A central finding of research on displacement is that long tenure displaced workers …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

We develop a theoretical model of firm dynamics and unemployment and characterize equilibria with tenure dependent …