on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme … into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined … unemployment matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. We build a first model with such complex characteristics …

The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the … to explain the differences in unemployment rates. …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …