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Unemployment Insurance and the Timing of Layoffs and Recalls
Author(s) -
Jurajda Štěpán
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00245
Subject(s) - unemployment , labour economics , economics , recall , business cycle , demographic economics , psychology , keynesian economics , economic growth , cognitive psychology
. This note provides the motivation to fill a gap in the empirical literature by showing that the optimal firm response to workers’ job search behaviour (Mortensen, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 30: 505–517, 1977) is to lay off those workers with high unemployment insurance and recall workers as they approach expiry of their benefits.