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 … analysis identifies scope for reallocation of resources towards less generous programmes within unemployment protection, which …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …

We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the … scar from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment quot …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …