they are likely to exist also in other countries. -- Unemployment ; Optimal Unemployment Insurance ; Liquidity Constraints …

precautionary saving and a shift toward safer assets in the years leading up to unemployment, and depletion of savings during … unemployment. This suggests that at least some households can foresee and prepare for upcoming unemployment, which indicates that … private savings can to some extent serve as a substitute for publicly provided unemployment insurance. -- unemployment …

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

The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically …

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is … lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment … benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played different roles in both countries …

disaggregate unemployment and in the cross-sectional differences across individuals of the duration of unemployment spells. The …-space model of Ahn and Hamilton (2016). I found that the contribution of each factor to the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment …

We argue that US welfare would rise if unemployment insurance were increased for younger and decreased for older … workers. This is because the young tend to lack the means to smooth consumption during unemployment and want jobs to … accumulate high-return human capital. So unemployment insurance is most valuable to them, while moral hazard is mild. By …

can be large in a weak labor market. However, in the long-run, subsidies raise the wage and equilibrium unemployment. …