Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe … often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

With the COVID-19 crisis as background, the underlying paper elaborates on setting up an unemployment insurance for … conditions with regard to self-employed and derive conclusions on how unemployment insurance for them should be designed. In this …, we investigate the key elements of such an insurance. When it comes to financing the unemployment scheme, we discuss how …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one American steadystate featuring low unemployment …, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

-skilled workers. The stylized facts are that profits are concentrated among the high-skilled, involuntary unemployment is mostly among … the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance is missing. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of redistribution … results are: (i) Social insurance props up wages, leading to more outsourcing and unskilled unemployment. (ii) Redistribution …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment … and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …

tiers of social protection, in particular upstream systems such as unemployment insurance, job retention and employment …