Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions /

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krebs, Tom
Other Authors: Scheffel, Martin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/087
Online Access:Full text available on IMF