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In ow into Unemployment: Employment Spells and Unemployment Insurance

Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001

This paper uses U.S. micro level data on employment durations to quantify the effect of potential Unemployment …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and defined replacement ratio UI systems are...

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Unemployment Durations and Extended Unemployment Benefits in Local Labor Markets

Jurajda, Stepan; Tannery, Frederick J. - EconWPA - 2001

Extended unemployment benefits programs in the US are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate demand conditions often vary dramatically. Some tight local labor markets may therefore exhibit a large adverse effect of extended unemployment benefits. Using a competing risk...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125718

Reservation wages in Estonia

Rõõm, Marit - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the factors determining reservation wages in Estonia, and estimates the influence of the reservation wage on unemployment duration. According to estimations there is no statistically significant effect of unemployment benefit and social assistance on the reservation wage in...

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Welfare Benefits and Work Incentives. An Analysis of the Distribution of Net Replacement Rates in Europe using EUROMOD, a Multi- Country Microsimulation Model.

Immervoll, Herwig; O'Donoghue, Cathal - EconWPA - 2003

This paper considers the methodology of measuring replacement rates, comparing simulation based approaches, which simulate replacement rates for a representative sample of the population, with other approaches that simulate replacement rates for "typical" families or are entirely based on...

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Unemployment Outflow and Unemployment Insurance Taxes

Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001

The system of Unemployment Insurance (UI) financing in the US draws its funds from a payroll tax on employers and varies the tax rate according to the individual employer's layoff history. There exists extensive evidence on the effect of this so-called experience rated tax on layoff decisions....

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Buffer funding of unemployment insurance in a dynamic labour union model

Halko, Marja-Liisa - EconWPA - 2004

employment when labour markets are unionised and the revenues of the firms are stochastic. We use the basic monopoly union … approach of wage and employment determination and assume that unemployment benefits are financed by employees’ UI contributions … funding on employment fluctuations. We show that, compared with the pay- as-you-go financing system, buffer funding stabilises …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

the future. Unemployment benefits do not only depend on an agent’s employment history, but also on the skills reported by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408328

On the Efficiency of Job and Income Protection in the Dynamic Labour Markets

Kilponen, Juha - EconWPA - 2005

contrary, if mobility costs are low a static efficiency outweighs a dynamic costs associated to reallocation. Employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408331

Indicators of unemployment and low-wage traps (Marginal effective tax rates on labour)

Carone, Giuseppe; Salomaki, Aino; Immervoll, Herwig; … - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents results of an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. Indicators of financial work incentives are needed for identifying any undesired influences of taxes and social...

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