of the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self … with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical … unemployment insurance levels into a politico-economic equilibrium. The interaction between the political decision about the level …

In this paper, I propose a new Keynesian DSGE model with labor market search and matching frictions which replicates … 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 …

in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market flows, long-term unemployment and labour force deprivation. The … third part addresses wage flexibility and relative wages, with special attention paid to regional unemployment elasticity of … labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage …

(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model … with uncertainty about the results of the job seeking and transactions costs linked to such a search process in which a …

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production … technology in driving differences in aggregate employment, while labor-market policies play a minor role. Search effort …

the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model … with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical …