groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …

unemployment insurance (UI) work test on long-term employment outcomes. Adding administrative wage records to the Washington …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …

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 …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …