for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. -- Employment ; trade union …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …, exploiting matched administrative and survey data with individual-level information on UB receipt, formal and informal employment … by a permanent shift of UB recipients towards informal employment, where they earn substantially lower wages. We then …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of …, employment responses vary across recessions. In the low-inflation recession of 2009, job losses are highly persistent and …

welfare gains but gives rise to large wage differentials. -- Job search ; wage bargaining ; wage differentials ; unemployment … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

system, people are in effect rewarded for being unemployed (through the unemployment benefits) and penalized for being …We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the …