This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a … country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent … features of the Belgian unemployment benefit system and proposes a number of policy recommendations that can help to make the …

higher unemployment is caused by structural change in the labor market or whether the problem is cyclic determines how …Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of …

-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched … employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …