unemployment insurance (UI) program, leading to distortionary taxation. Calibrating the model to the U.S. economy, we find that non …

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a … by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment … unemployment insurance is reduced. A revenue-neutral rebalancing of social support away from unemployment insurance and toward …

The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the …

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …