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

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle …This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs. We first … seekers who changed search behaviors in the final 59 days before expiration of unemployment insurance, we secondly show an … unemployment insurance, and change them in response to the expiration of insurance, prolonged unemployment will result in short job …

The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

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

devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI). … sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-time employment. We …