unemployment after program end we estimate the effect of keeping a subsidized job versus participating in training and taking up a …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …

This paper studies the effects of unemployment policies in a simple static general equilibrium model with adverse … workers are screened out and some skilled workers are rationed out. It is shown that the provision of unemployment insurance … (UI) raises involuntary unemployment by encouraging adverse selection, while unemployment assistance (UA) - or subsidy to …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

This paper reviews conceptual linkages between taxation and unemployment, available empirical evidence and country … policy advice on these issues, and tax policy options in addressing the unemployment problem. It concludes that the emphasis … unemployment …

studies such programs and their impact on unemployment rates, capital accumulation, and the process of development. An … private information. Firms wishing to hire from among the high ability agents use equilibrium unemployment as a sorting device …. Extensions of the framework to study unemployment insurance policies, as well as "productive" employment programs, are also …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. -- unemployment … ; search-matching equilibrium ; wage bargaining ; reductions of social security contributions ; unemployment insurance ; labor …

frictions. The policies of interest include unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). In addition to their …