probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not … experiment where the outcome of referrals is examined. To what extent do unemployed individuals actually apply for the jobs they …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …

Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area. …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …

-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …

previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …