Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design

Journal of Economic Surveys

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 284-311

  Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ^a   van Ours, Jan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Job search; Labor market institutions; Labor market policy; Unemployment dynamics; Unemployment insurance

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84895918821     PISSN: 09500804     EISSN: 14676419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joes.12005     Document Type: Article

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