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

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

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 …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-economic equilibrium. The interaction between the political decision about the level of … the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …

unemployed (e.g., unemployment insurance, job search monitoring, social assistance, wage subsidies). This paper provides a … duration of the different policies, the dynamic pattern of payments along the unemployment spell, and the emergence of taxes … program starts with standard unemployment insurance, then switches into monitored search and, finally, into social assistance …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …