This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

transmission channel. The effects of integration on unemployment, however, depend importantly on the nature of wage taxation and … unemployment compensation. As a separate methodological contribution, we extend a dynamic CGE model for Germany to allow for search … unemployment of high- and low-skilled labour. Simulating the effects of Eastern EU enlargement, we find quantitatively small …

model with search unemployment of high- and low-skilled labor, we simulate the effects of enlargement on Germany finding …