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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Main Authors: Krebs, Tom (Author), Scheffel, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, [2017]
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/17/87.
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