increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New … the economic analysis of unemployment insurance as it has evolved since the 1970s. …

facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker … s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features … is that an optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted …

both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …