The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly contested. The dominant perspective contends that … matches. Despite many studies of welfare benefits and unemployment, the literature has neglected how this relationship might … vary across institutional contexts. This article investigates how unemployment benefits and minimum income benefits affect …

unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the … absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is primarily a middle-class phenomenon: the unemployed are not …

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …