We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment … hazard models and assess what variables are important in determining unemployment duration. Our findings suggest that even … reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …

We assess the unemployment duration-dependent impact of the 2008 Labor Contract Law on job finding probabilities and …

There is substantial heterogeneity in the gender gaps in unemployment across OECD countries. We incorporate labor … market conditions, moral hazard and home production into a quantitative model of unemployment. The model can explain most of … the gender gaps in unemployment across the OECD countries. We �find that each component is quantitatively important to …

In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels … of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by recently documented … empirical facts, we augment an incomplete markets model of unemployment with a home production technology, which allows …

unemployed. Starting from this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should take the individual financial … situation into account. We use a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system, individual … unemployment benefits that increase with individual assets. By implicitly raising interest rates, asset-increasing benefits …

on the relationship between unemployment insurance benefits and home production using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS …) and the state-level unemployment insurance data of the U.S. The empirical results suggest that moving to a two times more … is able to generate the empirical facts regarding unemployment benefits and home production. The fact that unemployment …

unemployed. Starting from this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should take the individual financial … situation into account. We use a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system, individual … unemployment benefits that increase with individual assets. By implicitly raising interest rates, asset-increasing benefits …

unemployed. Starting from this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should optimally take the individual … financial situation into account. Using a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system …, individual consumption-saving decision and moral hazard during job search, we find that the optimal policy provides unemployment …

an increasing share among public active labour market policies. Provided that retraining is adequate shorter unemployment …