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 …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in … participation; (iii) subsidised employment seems to cause displacement of regular employment, whereas this appears not to be the …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. …

In January 2003, the unemployment benefits in Finland were increased for workers with long employment histories. The … effect of the benefit increase on the duration of unemployment by comparing the changes in the re-employment hazard profiles … average benefit increase was 15 per cent for the first 150 days of the unemployment spell. In this paper we evaluate the …

This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … Sweden. I study employment spells in 1992, 1996, and 1998 to find behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation … duration of employment spells between 1996 and 1998. …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity in …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

systems in Sweden, namely the sickness insurance (SI) and the unemployment insurance (UI). Moral hazard can arise from the …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …

The paper discusses harmonization of unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI). The focus is on the …