We argue that the efficiency of the Danish flexicurity Model, which combines high unemployment benefits with low job … citizens raises moral hazard issues which hinder the implementation of efficient public unemployment insurance. …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …

This paper analyzes optimum income taxation in a model with endogenous job destruction that gives rise to unemployment …. It is shown that optimal tax schemes comprise both payroll and layoff taxes when the state provides public unemployment … amounts to the discounted value of the sum of unemployment benefits (that the state pays to unemployed workers) and payroll …

increase steady state unemployment although counseled job seekers exit unemployment at a higher rate than the non …-counseled. Dynamic analysis shows that permanent and transitory policies can have effects of opposite sign on unemployment. …

Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis …

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … unemployment are primarily resulting from structural differences in labor policy and in the (vocational) education system, any …