States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It … of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes of OECD and BRIICS countries. Policies that boost both financial …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI … higher layoff taxes suppress frictional unemployment in less turbulent times, prevails in the models with labour market … impossible to include generous government-supplied unemployment insurance in that model without getting the unrealistic result …

unemployment and some of its many origins. Our inquiry leads us to view unemployment essentially as a perverse effect of social … rules on individual behaviors. An unemployment insurance program may be socially desirable, yet its optimal level of … unemployment insurance package of various societies. …

role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …

This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations …, employment, and earnings. A reform of unemployment insurance in Switzerland in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to … unemployment durations, employment, and earnings for Swiss men and migrants, but a statistically significant positive effect on …