Posts tagged with 'unemployment benefits'
November 30, 2016
Generosity of unemployment benefits affects job search effort
Unemployment insurance (UI) schemes face a dual challenge: By partly replacing forgone labor income, they should enable unemployed individuals to […]
October 23, 2013
How much unemployment insurance do we need?
By Rafel Lalive, Camille Landais and Josef Zweimüller The global crisis that erupted in 2008 has put millions of worker […]
May 15, 2013
Extended unemployment insurance did not affect U.S. unemployment rate
Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits typically are available for 26 weeks in the United States. In response to the Great Recession […]
April 29, 2013
Older workers use longer unemployment benefit duration to retire earlier
Extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) bene fits is one of the most important policy instruments to ease economic hardships […]
April 5, 2013
The Guardian reports on IZA study: No ‘welfare migration’ within EU
According to a comprehensive study of 19 European countries over a period from 1993 to 2008, national differences in unemployment […]