offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment … spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires both unemployment benefits and wage insurance …, supply difficulties limit actual-loss insurance, and separation packages typically include partial unemployment insurance and …

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment …