public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program – a less generous, means …

We investigate the relationship between life cycle wages and individual membership of unemployment insurance schemes in … Denmark. We separate permanent from transitory wages and characterise them using membership of unemployment insurance funds …. We find that unemployment insurance is associated with lower wage growth heterogeneity over the life cycle and greater …

Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions … job search incentives and thus gross unemployment. We analyse the optimal design of the unemployment insurance system …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

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 …

We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL …

We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face …

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …

This paper studies contingent, temporary unemployment insurance (UI) coverage’s impacts on employment and unemployment … duration models, the simulations suggest that UI increases unemployment rates by 2% and 5% in the non-seasonal and seasonal …