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 examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study this …Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … suggesting that the reduced sick report rate in turn affected the transition rate to employment …

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 …