. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within … mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social …

decrease in population depending on the local labor demand elasticity and on how unemployment benefits are financed.The paper …