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 …

mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

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 …

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

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

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 …