Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because … group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

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

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

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. …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

, 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 …