The large-scale unemployment caused by the Great Recession has necessitated unprecedented increases in the duration of … unemployment insurance (UI). While it is clear that the weekly payments are beneficial to recipients, workers receiving benefits … changes in the distribution of unemployment benefit duration. We find that search activity is greater when a claimant's UI …

-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for involuntary unemployment, job search …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

The trade-off between output and unemployment has become an essential part of modern macroeconomics and is known as …

of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … of the search-matching theory. -- Job Creation ; Involuntary Unemployment ; Search-Matching ; Labor Demand …

higher replacement rate, like in the Nordic countries, seems to be a "crime reducing" combination. -- Unemployment ; labour …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. -- Unemployment ; youth …