unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one American steadystate featuring low unemployment …, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …

This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on …