-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in … unemployment can be attributed to the early retirement policies that were implemented in Europe from the 1970s up until the early … aiming to explain the European unemployment problem. …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

the current measures in Slovenia in the area of activation of unemployment benefit recipients and it compares its formal … unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and … sanctions. The review lists several recommendations Slovenia should apply to activate unemployment benefit recipients, including …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …

Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …