We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

This paper aims to examine the economic impact of the implementation of an unemployment insurance (UI) program for … welfare compared to other social protection systems such as unemployment assistance. …

positive changes in the unemployment rate, which may be proxying for the inflow rate and could be called an insurance effect. …While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … remarkably little evidence on the forces determining benefits. The paper presents a simple model where workers desire insurance …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

responses, unemployment insurance extensions contributed 0.5 percentage point to the increase in the aggregate unemployment rate …The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …