This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … high unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one "American" steady-state featuring low … unemployment, high mobility and low unemployment insurance …

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policy over the business cycle, using a heterogeneous agent job …

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment … and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of the unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods … difficult. To make things worse, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment matter when … unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with such complex characteristics. Our model features …