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 …

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 … average benefit increase was 15 per cent for the first 150 days of the unemployment spell. In this paper we evaluate the … effect of the benefit increase on the duration of unemployment by comparing the changes in the re-employment hazard profiles …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the …. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study this …

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 …

This study evaluates the long-term cost of unemployment in Finland by focusing on the deep recession period of the … early 1990s. The number of plant closures increased sharply during the recession and the unemployment rate rose by more than … 13 percentage points. In the analysis, prime working-age men who face unemployment due to plant closure are matched to …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …