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

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

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

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively … search requirements have a positive effect on finding rates. -- eligibility criteria ; unemployment benefits ; job finding …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a … slows down after the birth of a child and all specific human capital is destroyed upon job loss. -- fertility ; unemployment …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …