Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...
