show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …

We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …

sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some … have had in the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, other institutions closer to the core of the welfare state have caused no net …

from the Paycheck Protection Program and states with more generous unemployment insurance benefits had milder declines and …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …