, 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 …

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. …

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 …

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

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

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 …

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

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 …