Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

The administration of benefits is a relatively neglected aspect of the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

various policy interventions aimed at reducing unemployment. The model is estimated using data on unemployment spells and …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women …