Røed, Knut; Jensen, Peter; Thoursie, Anna - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2002
Based on a combined register database for Norwegian and Swedish unemployment spells, we use the ‘between-countries-variation’ in the unemployment insurance systems to identify causal effects. The elasticity of the job hazard rate with respect to the benefit replacement ratio is around -1.0...