Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

. Spain is a paradigmatic example, with high unemployment rates and very low workforce reentry rates for unemployed workers …. Poor demand is typically blamed for this problem, but the interaction of pension rules and unemployment insurance may also … play an important role in this outcome. Generous unemployment benefits, lax search requirements for the unemployed and …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

increases poverty and social exclusion, which may further constrain economic growth. Reducing long term unemployment by …

to make minimum effort on the placement of some of them. -- unemployment ; job-search assistance ; labor market …

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs. We first …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. -- vacancy referral ; job …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. -- vacancy refferal ; job …