the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of … active search and hence higher exit rate from unemployment into nonparticipation. The effect of these measures on total … employment is ambiguous in the model. Simulations show that there are cases when reduction of the unemployment benefits …

I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …

unemployment insurance on job quality. This comment shows that NW's finding is driven by unnecessarily large bandwidths used in …

met. I model monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework of Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), where job … government conditions the unemployment benefits. In the optimal monitoring scheme, endogenous sanctions and rewards, together … economy and find that the addition of optimal monitoring to the optimal unemployment insurance scheme decreases the variance …

Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten … Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende Beschäftigungskrise vor? Und in welchem Umfang hat das deutsche Sozial- und Wohlfahrtssystem zu … die Aufgabe einer Arbeitslosenversicherung die soziale Absicherung im Falle einer möglichen, temporären Arbeitslosigkeit …

unemployment. Member States should continue along the line of reforms followed so far. The Commission has stressed the importance …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …

the optimal unemployment insurance framework of Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), where job-search effort is private … conditions the unemployment benefits. In the optimal monitoring scheme, random monitoring, together with endogenous sanctions and …/2). Compared to optimal unemployment insurance, monitoring saves, at the balanced budget point, about eighty percent of the cost …