specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government …

specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Youth unemployment in Ghana increases in parental wealth. This occurs because, without unemployment insurance, only … heterogeneous ability. I decompose the effect of wealth on average lifetime earnings into education and unemployment channels, and … interventions: an education subsidy and unemployment insurance. I find that the former is most effective at increasing aggregate …

Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …