system of unemployment compensation, with shorttime compensation as an alternative to unemployment compensation. This means …) already have short-time compensation as an option under their unemployment insurance system. In these states a governmental …

, opportunity cost and allocation a person is expected to encounter when they are first introduced to economic theory. It attempts …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

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 …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …