Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …

the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …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 …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …