of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit … administrations work together with the local public employment services. We find that despite positive self-selection Approved Local … correlated with the job finding probability of the long-term unemployed. Thus, regions that self-selected into Approved Local …

This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry … account for the cost of higher wages as mobility allows them to partially shift the burden of unemployment to other UIs. A … aims in the design of unemployment insurance …

. A worker's bargaining position reflects their own productivity, and also the employment status and conditions of their …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which …

implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

between the states. Labor markets exhibit unemployment due to trade union's bargaining about the wage rate. In a decentral …This paper compares the decentral organization of unemployment insurance in member states of a state union with the … scenario the states organize independently unemployment insurance and decide about the rate on wages contributed to the …

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by … schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector participation changes over the duration of unemployment, in turn … affecting the incentive to search for formal employment. We find that increasing benefit generosity makes job seekers less …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …